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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
Volume 38, Issue 1, Pages 30-63Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2020.1868980
Keywords
Indigenous water rights; water governance; Indigenous peoples and agriculture; Murray– Darling Basin
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- Australian Research Council [FT130101145]
- Australian Government Research Training Program
- Griffith University's Australian Rivers Institute
- Australian Research Council [FT130101145] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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Political theorists argue that justice for cultural groups must consider socioeconomic distribution, political representation and cultural recognition. By combining this tripartite justice framework with settler colonial theory, the paper analyzes novel data sets on Aboriginal peoples' water experiences in south-eastern Australia, revealing the concept of 'water colonialism' and the need to include a fourth dimension - the socio-ecological realm - in justice theories for advancing Indigenous peoples' rights and needs.
Political theorists argue that justice for cultural groups must account for socioeconomic distribution, political representation and cultural recognition. Combining this tripartite justice framework with settler colonial theory, we analyse novel data sets relating to Aboriginal peoples' water experiences in south-eastern Australia. We construe persistent injustices as 'water colonialism', showing that the development of Australia's water resources has so far delivered little economic benefit to Aboriginal peoples, who remain marginalized from decision-making. We argue that justice theories need to encompass a fourth dimension - the vitally important socio-ecological realm - if they are to serve as conceptual resources for advancing Indigenous peoples' rights and needs.
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