Unstable relations : Indigenous people and environmentalism in contemporary Australia / edited by Eve Vincent and Timothy Neale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vincent, Eve, editor.

Neale, Timothy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Queensland. Wild Rivers Act 2005.

Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure.

Aboriginal Australians.

Aboriginal Australians--Attitudes.

Land tenure--Environmental aspects.

Land tenure.

Land use--Australia.

Land use.

Green movement--Australia.

Green movement.

Environmentalism--Australia--Attitudes.

Environmentalism.

Environmentalists--Australia.

Environmentalists.

Local Subjects:

Queensland. Wild Rivers Act 2005.

Physical Description:

xiv, 383 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

The 1970s witnessed the emergence of a global environmental movement in response to rampant resource extraction. This moment gave rise to a celebrated 'green-black alliance' between environmentalists and Indigenous groups in Australia. However, in recent years, this relationship has come under increased critical scrutiny in Australia and elsewhere, spurred in part by the global mining boom and continuing concerns about the effects of climate change. As the relationship between environmentalists and Indigenous peoples is subjected to renewed public inquiry, this book undertakes the vital task of submitting Indigenous-environmentalist relations to detailed analysis rather than broad-based summary. Unstable Relations addresses the past and emerging political tensions that mark 'green-black' encounters; provides fine-grained ethnographic case studies of 'green-black' relations; and, analyses the economic futures of 'green-black' collaborations.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Instabilities and Inequalities: Relations between Indigenous People and Environmentalism in Australia Today / Eve Vincent

2. Re-reading the Wild Rivers Act Controversy / Timothy Neale

3. Kuninjku People, Buffalo and Conservation in Arnhem Land: `It's a Contradiction that Frustrates Us' / Jon Altman

4. Intimacies with Country, Environmentalism and Intercultural Relations in Northern Australia's Gulf Country / David Trigger

5. Hope and Farce: Indigenous Peoples' Water Reforms during the Millennium Drought / Jessica K. Weir

6. Aboriginal People and Wilderness: Dave Lindner, Interiority and the Self-willed Land / Robert Levitus

7. Kangaroo Tails for Dinner? Environmental Culturalists Encounter Aboriginal Greenies / Eve Vincent

8. Indigenous-Green Knowledge Collaborations and the James Price Point Dispute / Stephen Muecke

9. Emplacing and Economising: Neoliberalising Australian Landscapes of Democracy / Michaela Spencer

Reflections on Relations

10. We're Always Pushing the Boundaries for First Nations' Rights / Eve Vincent

11. Stuck for Ill or Good in this Beautiful Country / Eve Vincent

12. Never Squib the Rights Issues in Favour of Conservation / Timothy Neale

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781742588780

1742588786

OCLC:

970819386

Publisher Number:

99993273579