Divide and Conquer: Privatizing Indigenous Land Ownership As Capital Accumulation

Hall, Rebecca

doi:10.1080/19187033.2015.11674936

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“…In this paper, we are concerned with analysing how processes of accumulation by dispossession in colonial settler societies work in tandem, and are indeed exacerbated by, a governmental rationality concerned to eliminate the original Indigenous inhabitants. As Hall has argued, “the capitalist imperative for land privatizations … [is] a specific colonial tactic” (:24), something we return to in our discussion further below on Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs). What distinguishes colonialism abroad from settler colonialism or internal colonialism is that, in the case of the latter, the dispossessed have nowhere else to go.…”

Section: Conceptual Terrainmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We contend that the current legislative and legal regime operates to facilitate industry access to Indigenous lands. Rather than regarding the NTA as a recognition of Indigenous rights, we argue it is a technique of government that facilitates accumulation via dispossession (Hall , ). We demonstrate this through the following empirical discussion of the historically consistent pattern of the Australian state privileging the interests of mining companies and capital, over the rights and interests of Indigenous Australians in Queensland, traced from the case of the Century mine in the 1990s, through to the case of the proposed Adani mine today.…”

Section: Australian Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Accumulating Minerals and Dispossessing Indigenous Australians: Native Title Recognition as Settler‐Colonialism

Howlett

Lawrence

2019

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The changes in regulation of mineral development on Indigenous people's lands, wrought by the advent of native title in Australia, created an impression that the political economy of mining on Indigenous people's lands would be fundamentally transformed. In this paper we argue, in reality, a deeply seated settler‐colonial mentality endures in Australia within the institutions presiding over mineral governance, particularly in those States that are heavily dependent upon resource extraction. Focusing on the governance of mineral development in Queensland, Australia, we offer an analysis of the rationalities that inform the endurance of an inequitable architecture of extractive governance in that State. Our conceptual framework draws on a synthesis of the concepts of “accumulation by dispossession”, “settler colonialism”, and Indigenous critiques of the politics of recognition, to argue that liberal states remain deeply committed to the facilitation of mineral development on Indigenous people's lands in direct contravention to international norms.

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Section: Australian Contextmentioning

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Accumulating Minerals and Dispossessing Indigenous Australians: Native Title Recognition as Settler‐Colonialism

Howlett

Lawrence

2019

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“…The third and fourth authors assert that government has attempted to divide the collective spirit of indigenous people by privatizing previously communal lands and water. Their experience, corroborated by others including Rivara (2020), Martínez Coria andHaro Encinas (2015), Hall (2015) and Trawick (2003) indicates that privatization facilitates the fragmentation and sale of communal and indigenous territory, the disintegration of community structure, and commercial exploitation of natural resources. Conversely, communal land tenure signifies a collective of owners, lending to a larger group able to defend local interests against government, transnational corporations, and others through collective action.…”

Section: Collective Versus Privatized Resource Governancementioning

confidence: 52%

Bee mietii rak rkabni nis (The people know how to seed water): A Zapotec experience in adapting to water scarcity and drought

Basel

Quiroz²,

Herrera³

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Climate and Development

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We are facing a global water crisis exacerbated by hydro-climatic extremes related to climate change. Water scarcity is expected to increasingly affect indigenous and marginalized populations. Supporting the sovereignty of indigenous and rural populations to create water secure futures through placebased knowledge, local management, and Community-based Adaptation (CBA) measures may help tackle this crisis. Zapotec communities in Oaxaca, Mexico have self-organized for collective action to use Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) to address water scarcity, resulting in a perceived increase of groundwater availability. Treating groundwater as a common-pool resource (CPR) within a sociohydrological system, the objectives of this paper are two-fold: (1) to explore how MAR may be implemented as a CBA measure, and (2) to understand what factors triggered and/or enabled the widespread implementation of MAR by Zapotec indigenous communities in the Valles Centrales of Oaxaca, Mexico. In doing so, we aim to get a better understanding of local processes while also furthering theories that relate to CBA, CPR, and sociohydrology. This paper was born from the desire of the Zapotec community members to share their experience and lessons learned so other droughtvulnerable communities might benefit.

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“…The coloniser, spatially and culturally, misrecognises, colonises, constrains, denies, appropriates, controls, subsumes and governs Indigeneity (Coulthard 2014;Hall 2015;McCormack 2016). Consequently, the imperative is scholarship that critically interrogates the increasing challenges faced by Indigenous peoples (Coombes et al 2012;Radcliffe 2017).…”

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Economic re-colonisation: Financialisation, indigeneity and the epistemic violence of resolution

Carter

Warren

2021

Political Geography

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Divide and Conquer: Privatizing Indigenous Land Ownership As Capital Accumulation

Cited by 11 publications

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Accumulating Minerals and Dispossessing Indigenous Australians: Native Title Recognition as Settler‐Colonialism

Accumulating Minerals and Dispossessing Indigenous Australians: Native Title Recognition as Settler‐Colonialism

Bee mietii rak rkabni nis (The people know how to seed water): A Zapotec experience in adapting to water scarcity and drought

Economic re-colonisation: Financialisation, indigeneity and the epistemic violence of resolution

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