Other People Country Law Water amd Entitlement in Settler Colonial Sites 1st Edition by Timothy Neale 9781317219453 131721945

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Introduction: Other people’s country: law, water, entitlement

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Remembering ‘the blackfellows’ dam’: Australian Aboriginal water management and settler colonial riparian law in the upper Roper River, Northern Territory

Introduction

Study site, methods, and sources

The Roper weirs: subsistence and pastoral purposes

Controversy and justification

Legal preparations

The court case

The judgment

Aboriginal involvement

Histories and memories

Discussion

Acknowledgements

Funding

Notes

Contested sites, land claims and economic development in Poum, New Caledonia

Introduction

Geographical and politico-economic context

Land as identity card and intellectual property

Colonial settlement, Kanak land claims and attributions in Poum

Mining history and development in Poum

Mining benefits and environmental damage in Poum

Subcontracting, local development and customary conflicts in Poum

Contested places: land legitimacy without real land attribution?

Conclusions

Notes

‘Nothing never change’: mapping land, water and Aboriginal identity in the changing environments of northern Australia’s Gulf Country

Customary law relating to land and water in the Gulf Country

Land rights, native title and the negotiation of values and interests in water

Continuity and change in Aboriginal water values and interests

Funding

Notes

Decolonising Indigenous water ‘rights’ in Australia: flow, difference, and the limits of law

Introduction

Indigenous conceptions of water

The importance of water

Flows and continuities

Sociality and territoriality

Intergenerational and downstream responsibilities

Access, ownership, and resource rights

History of settler colonial orientations to water bodies

Settler colonial water regulation

The absence of an Indigenous perspective

The capacity to respond to Indigenous water rights within existing law

Flow as a conceptual tool for water allocation

A critique of Anglo-Australian law

New ways of honouring Indigenous water rights

Conclusion: using Indigenous conceptions of water to re-imagine water rights

Acknowledgements

Notes

Returning to the water to enact a treaty relationship: the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign

Introduction

The Two Row Wampum and settler-colonial dispossession

The Two Row Wampum enactment

The Two Row Wampum enactment and decolonial transformation

Notes

The sensible order of the eel

Repurposing Rancière

Shame

Death disorder

Swampy law

Notes

What has water got to do with it? Indigenous public housing and Australian settler-colonial relations

Indigenous public housing

Water in the house

Conclusions

Funding

Notes

First law and the force of water: law, water, entitlement

Introduction

From ethnography to political ecology

From cultural heritage to ethics

Acknowledgements

Notes

Index