Other People's Country - 9780367002091

Taylor & Francis

Other People\u2019s Country thinks through the entangled objects of law \u2013 legislation, policies, institutions, treaties and so on \u2013 that \u2018govern\u2019 waters and that make bodies of water \u2018lawful\u2019 within settler colonial sites today. Informed by the theoretical interventions of cosmopolitics and political ecology, each opening up new approaches to questions of politics and \u2018the political\u2019, the chapters in this book locate these insights within material settler colonial \u2018places\u2019 rather than abstract structures of domination. A claim to water \u2013 whether by Indigenous peoples or settlers \u2013 is not simply a claim to a resource. It is a claim to knowledge and to the constitution of place and therefore, in the terms of Isabelle Stengers, to the continued constitution of the past, present and future of real worlds. Including contributions from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, critical legal studies, and se.