- Title
- Legal Pluralism on Dyarubbin: Country-as-Lore/Law in Western Sydney, Australia
- Creator
- Ngurra, Darug; Dadd, Lexodious; Lemire, Jess; Norman-Dadd, Corina; Narwal, Harriet; Glass, Paul; Suchet-Pearson, Sandie; O’Gorman, Emily; Houston, Donna; Graham, Marnie; Scott, Rebecca
- Relation
- GeoHumanities Vol. 9, Issue 2, p. 355-379
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2023.2182699
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- In Australia, urbanisation is synonymous with ecological and cultural fragmentation. In places that became cities through deeply colonising processes, this destruction is imbricated with the relegation of Indigenous Lore/Law below English-derived law. In this article we argue for appropriate recognition and respectful intercultural engagements with Country-as-Lore/Law as a counter to the conception of land as a passive subject of anthropocentric law. Weaving together autoethnography, historical research and more-than-human geographies we identify the colonial practices that perpetuate ecological and cultural fragmentation in Sydney, Australia, while providing a novel, situated engagement with the humans, animals, plants, lands and waters that co-become to co-create particular and overlapping more-than-human legal landscapes. We show how Indigenous-non-Indigenous collaboration grounded in Darug Country-as-Lore/Law refracts and disperses the colonial logics of the state on urban Country that is ostensibly held, yet certainly neglected, by the Crown.
- Subject
- decolonising; indigenous-led collaboration; legal geographies; more-than-human cities; ontological pluralism; SDG 11; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1494457
- Identifier
- uon:53797
- Identifier
- ISSN:2373-566X
- Language
- eng
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