Abstract
Tourists’ experiences of Tasmanian road kill illustrate the juncture at which the representatives and representations of a nation – Australian native animals – human cultural practices and technology collide on the public road. Auto-mobility is a powerful medium through which people experience nature, comfortably insulated against the environment outside, the very world their travels have taken them to explore. In this article I demonstrate the personalisation of the mobilities paradigm, noting that the tourists’ portable world intersects – and sometimes literally collides with – the local animal mobility system. The ease of a couple travelling together on a road trip includes spontaneous conversation and unguarded observations. Explicit personal dialogue about what is seen on the journey is exposed for its power to trigger subsequent academic analysis.
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