First nations rights and colonising practices by the nuclear industry: An Australian battleground for environmental justice
This paper highlights current events and original research to explore the tensions between First Nations, industry and government in the context of uranium mining and nuclear waste management in Australia. We outline challenges faced by Aboriginal Australians in their role as custodians of the land,...
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ftswinburne:tle:bab910da-493f-495c-8219-7b12ac884263:28f49f06-0da8-44be-9edc-ad1dd0a9c582:1 2023-06-18T03:40:37+02:00 First nations rights and colonising practices by the nuclear industry: An Australian battleground for environmental justice Marsh, Jillian K. Green, Jim Swinburne University of Technology 2020 http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/473389 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2019.01.010 unknown Elsevier BV http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/473389 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2019.01.010 Copyright © 2020 The Extractive Industries and Society, Vol. 7, no. 3 (Jul 2020), pp. 870-881 Journal article 2020 ftswinburne https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2019.01.010 2023-06-05T22:27:54Z This paper highlights current events and original research to explore the tensions between First Nations, industry and government in the context of uranium mining and nuclear waste management in Australia. We outline challenges faced by Aboriginal Australians in their role as custodians of the land, and as community leaders. A critical examination of some of the barriers to First Nations empowerment includes government engagement through legislation and practices that have repeatedly resulted in dispossession and disempowerment of Australian Aboriginal Traditional Owners. Laws ostensibly designed to provide rights and protections to Aboriginal people are repeatedly curtailed or overridden to facilitate nuclear projects—in particular radioactive waste repositories and uranium mines. We argue that existing measures provide feeble rights and protections for Aboriginal people as laws have repeatedly produced outcomes that favour government and industry and deny Aboriginal rights to sovereignty. Our research highlights patterns of colonial oppression that transgress human rights, and frames mining and nuclear waste in a way that lacks a decolonisation strategy and are based on industrial violence. Theoretical understandings of Indigenous sovereignty through a decolonising lens will highlight Indigenous standpoints, the continued contestation of Indigenous peoples’ customary land rights, and the limitations of post-colonial environmental justice. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Swinburne University of Technology: Swinburne Research Bank The Extractive Industries and Society 7 3 870 881 |
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This paper highlights current events and original research to explore the tensions between First Nations, industry and government in the context of uranium mining and nuclear waste management in Australia. We outline challenges faced by Aboriginal Australians in their role as custodians of the land, and as community leaders. A critical examination of some of the barriers to First Nations empowerment includes government engagement through legislation and practices that have repeatedly resulted in dispossession and disempowerment of Australian Aboriginal Traditional Owners. Laws ostensibly designed to provide rights and protections to Aboriginal people are repeatedly curtailed or overridden to facilitate nuclear projects—in particular radioactive waste repositories and uranium mines. We argue that existing measures provide feeble rights and protections for Aboriginal people as laws have repeatedly produced outcomes that favour government and industry and deny Aboriginal rights to sovereignty. Our research highlights patterns of colonial oppression that transgress human rights, and frames mining and nuclear waste in a way that lacks a decolonisation strategy and are based on industrial violence. Theoretical understandings of Indigenous sovereignty through a decolonising lens will highlight Indigenous standpoints, the continued contestation of Indigenous peoples’ customary land rights, and the limitations of post-colonial environmental justice. |
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First nations rights and colonising practices by the nuclear industry: An Australian battleground for environmental justice |
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First nations rights and colonising practices by the nuclear industry: An Australian battleground for environmental justice |
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