Living Waters, Law First: Nyikina and Mangala water governance in the Kimberley, Western Australia
The ‘Living Waters, Law First’ water governance framework centres Living Waters, First Law and the health/well-being of people and Country. The framework is based on a groundwater policy position developed by the Walalakoo Aboriginal Corporation (WAC), the Nyikina and Mangala peoples’ native title c...
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ftanucanberra:oai:openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au:1885/287440 2023-05-15T16:16:36+02:00 Living Waters, Law First: Nyikina and Mangala water governance in the Kimberley, Western Australia RiverOfLife, Martuwarra Taylor, Kat Poelina, Anne 2023-03-27T22:58:42Z application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1885/287440 https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2021.1880538 https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/287440/3/Living%20Waters%20Law%20First%20Nyikina.pdf.jpg en_AU eng Engineers Media Pty Ltd http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FL190100164 1324-1583 http://hdl.handle.net/1885/287440 doi:10.1080/13241583.2021.1880538 https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/287440/3/Living%20Waters%20Law%20First%20Nyikina.pdf.jpg © 2021 The authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc-nd/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License Australasian Journal of Water Resources First Law Living Waters First Nations Indigenous well- being water governance Journal article 2023 ftanucanberra https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2021.1880538 2023-04-03T22:15:41Z The ‘Living Waters, Law First’ water governance framework centres Living Waters, First Law and the health/well-being of people and Country. The framework is based on a groundwater policy position developed by the Walalakoo Aboriginal Corporation (WAC), the Nyikina and Mangala peoples’ native title corporation, in the West Kimberley, Western Australia in 2018. This article celebrates Traditional Owner’s pragmatic decolonising strategies. It explores the emerging conceptual challenges to the status quo by comparing the Living Waters, First Law framework to Australia’s settler state water governance framework, represented by the National Water Initiative. Bacchi’s ‘what is the problem represented to be’ approach is used to interrogate the underlying assumptions and logics (2009). We find that there are incommensurable differences with First Law and the Australian water reform agenda. Yet, our analysis also suggests ‘bridges’ in relation to sustainability, benefits and responsibilities could promote dialogues towards decolonial water futures. This research is supported by Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarships, the Australian Research Council Australian Laureate Fellowship FL190100164, 'Water Justice: Indigenous Water Valuation and Resilient Decision-making' and the Australian National University Water Justice Hub Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Australian National University: ANU Digital Collections Australasian Journal of Water Resources 25 1 40 56 |
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The ‘Living Waters, Law First’ water governance framework centres Living Waters, First Law and the health/well-being of people and Country. The framework is based on a groundwater policy position developed by the Walalakoo Aboriginal Corporation (WAC), the Nyikina and Mangala peoples’ native title corporation, in the West Kimberley, Western Australia in 2018. This article celebrates Traditional Owner’s pragmatic decolonising strategies. It explores the emerging conceptual challenges to the status quo by comparing the Living Waters, First Law framework to Australia’s settler state water governance framework, represented by the National Water Initiative. Bacchi’s ‘what is the problem represented to be’ approach is used to interrogate the underlying assumptions and logics (2009). We find that there are incommensurable differences with First Law and the Australian water reform agenda. Yet, our analysis also suggests ‘bridges’ in relation to sustainability, benefits and responsibilities could promote dialogues towards decolonial water futures. This research is supported by Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarships, the Australian Research Council Australian Laureate Fellowship FL190100164, 'Water Justice: Indigenous Water Valuation and Resilient Decision-making' and the Australian National University Water Justice Hub |
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