The Social Effects of Native Title: Recognition, Translation, Coexistence

The Social Effects of Native Title: Recognition, Translation, Coexistence......Page 1
Contents......Page 3
Katie Glaskin......Page 7
Steven Ross......Page 8
Jessica Weir......Page 9
Abbreviations and acronyms......Page 11
1. The social effects of native title: recognition, translation, coexistence......Page 13
Recognition......Page 16
Translation......Page 28
Coexistence......Page 31
Conclusion......Page 36
References......Page 38
Introduction......Page 43
A brief ethnography of the court: performance and enactment......Page 45
The arena......Page 46
Who gets to speak, and how......Page 47
The witness statement—neither fish nor fowl?......Page 50
The insertion of performance: sacred power made manifest......Page 56
The advantages of giving ‘non-evidence’......Page 60
Ancestral forces insert their own performance......Page 62
The insistence on difference......Page 64
Conclusion......Page 66
Acknowledgments......Page 68
References......Page 69
3. Claim, culture and effect: property relations and the native title process......Page 71
Law and culture......Page 73
A historical view......Page 76
Objectifying culture in the context of native title......Page 79
‘Tradition’, property relations, and the constitution......Page 82
Conclusion......Page 84
References......Page 86
Some initial effects of the judgement on local lives......Page 91
The Indigenous Land Corporation as a new pastoral boss......Page 96
The effects of the court process itself......Page 97
Conclusion......Page 100
References......Page 101
5. ‘We’re tired from talking’: The native title process from the perspective of Kaanju People living on homelands, Wenlock and Pascoe Rivers, Cape York Peninsula......Page 103
Kaanju governance......Page 104
Chuulangun Aboriginal Corporation......Page 107
Background to the claim......Page 109
Native title and State land dealings......Page 110
Batavia Downs and cattle enterprise......Page 112
Conservation values......Page 113
Cape York Land Council......Page 116
The claimant group......Page 117
The prescribed body corporate......Page 121
Indigenous land management, sovereignty and compensation issues......Page 122
Conclusion......Page 124
References......Page 126
Introduction......Page 129
The limits of recognition......Page 130
Fundamental coexistence......Page 132
Beyond formalism, towards community?......Page 138
Conclusion......Page 141
References......Page 143
7. Native title and the Torres Strait: encompassment and recognition in the Central Islands......Page 147
Neitiv (‘native’) and porena (‘foreigner’)......Page 149
The Torres Strait Islander Land Act and the Gau Clan......Page 152
Native title......Page 155
Warraberalgal......Page 157
Reflections......Page 158
References......Page 159
8. ‘No vacancies at the Starlight Motel’: Larrakia identity and the native title claims process......Page 163
Native title and the colonial process......Page 164
Modern Larrakiya identity and native title......Page 166
Larrakiya and the ‘long grassers’......Page 169
The Larrakia claim over Darwin......Page 173
Larrakiya identity co-opted......Page 174
Conclusion: an uncertain identity......Page 175
References......Page 176
Background to the New South Wales Land Rights Act......Page 179
Historical background......Page 181
What constitutes an Aboriginal land council?......Page 186
The Sydney experience......Page 188
Conclusion......Page 191
Acknowledgments......Page 193
References......Page 194
Introduction......Page 197
MLDRIN: a brief introduction......Page 198
Traditional ownership, native title and establishing MLDRIN......Page 200
A confederation of Nations......Page 203
Election processes and the diversity of political identities......Page 206
Incorporation, governance, and certainty......Page 209
Conclusion......Page 211
References......Page 212
The recognition of recognition......Page 215
Justice from recognition......Page 216
The limits of recognition......Page 217
Recognising change......Page 221
Dealing with change over time......Page 222
Taking change seriously......Page 223
References......Page 225
12. History, oral history, and memoriation in native title......Page 227
History vs anthropology......Page 230
History, narrative, ethnohistory......Page 231
References......Page 235