![]() | Wild Articulations: Environmentalism and Indigeneity in Northern Australia Subjects: Environmentalism -- Political aspects -- Australia -- Cape York Peninsula (Qld.); Indigenous peoples -- Land tenure -- Australia -- Cape York Peninsula (Qld.); Indigenous peoples -- Legal status laws etc. -- Australia -- Cape York Peninsula (Qld.); Cape; Beginning with the nineteenth-century expeditions, Northern Australia has been both a fascination and concern to the administrators of settler governance in Australia. With Southeast Asia and Melanesia as neighbors, the region's expansive and relatively undeveloped tropical savanna lands are alternately framed as a market opportunity, an ecological prize, a threat to national sovereignty, and a social welfare problem. Over the last several decades, while developers have eagerly promoted the mineral and agricultural potential of its monsoonal catchments, conservationists speak of these same sites as rare biodiverse habitats, and settler governments focus on the "social dysfunction" of its Indigenous communities. Meanwhile, across the north, Indigenous people have sought to wrest greater equity in the management of their lives and the use of their country. Timothy Neale is a research fellow at Deakin University's Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation in Melbourne, Australia. |
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