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From:Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article explores laws protagonism and effects in contemporary conflicts over development, natural resource extraction, and indigenous peoples' rights. It focuses on the sociolegal site where these conflicts have...
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From:Journal of International Women's Studies (Vol. 9, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This paper reports on the gendered impacts of Honduras' neoliberal agrarian legislation within the context of tourism development. It draws on ethnographic research with the Afro-indigenous Garifuna to...
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From:Anthropological Quarterly (Vol. 88, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFor white Kenyans descended from colonial settlers, the question of how to establish their right to belong in Kenya provokes considerable anxiety. Some whites attempt to suture themselves to Kenya through kinship...
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From:Verge: Studies in Global Asias (Vol. 4, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIN 1995, the Okinawan community of Yomitan, which had been dispossessed of their lands during the Pacific War to allow for the building of a Japanese airfield, revealed their plans for the future of their village...
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From:SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (Vol. 28, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMalaysia has declared its vision of developed country status by the year 2020. Much has been written about its top-down development approach, its relative economic success and the social as well as environmental costs...
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From:American Journal of International Law (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCASE or THE KALINA AND LOKONO PEOPLES v. SURINAME. Series C, No. 309. Merits, Reparations and Costs. At http://www.corteidh.or.cr. Inter-American Court of Human Rights, November 25, 2015. On November 25, 2015, the...
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From:Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAIS) (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedON MARCH 30, 2020, the self-described "independent, nonprofit 501(c) 3 media organization" High Country News (HCN) published under their Education section "Land-Grab Universities: Expropriated Indigenous Land Is the...
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From:Melbourne University Law Review (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed[The High Court's decision in Commonwealth v Yarmirr raised the important question of whether the Crown's acquisition of sovereignty over the territorial sea was accompanied by the vesting of radical title which could...
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From:Australian Aboriginal Studies (Vol. 2009, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe tenth annual Native Title Conference was held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne from 3 to 5 June 2009, returning to the city in which the first national Native Title Conference was held in 1999. The...
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From:Canadian Public Administration (Vol. 60, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAlthough there is a rich literature on the negotiation and contents of comprehensive land claims agreements, very little has been written on the dynamics of their implementation. This article contributes by sketching...
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From:Michigan Historical Review (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA road can be a very boring thing, until someone wants to build one across your land. Today road building often evokes heated debates over property, commerce, traffic, tradition, and even race and culture. In this...
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From:Melbourne University Law Review (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed[The 'just terms' guarantee in s 51 (xxxi) of the Constitution offers protection for the property rights of Australians, but does this protection extend to indigenous people who have native title rights and interests in...
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From:McGill Law Journal (Vol. 46, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe 1996 Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples addressed the difficulties inherent in the domestication of Aboriginal and treaty rights in Canada. While Aboriginal peoples can now legitimately question...
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From:Forensic Science International (Vol. 163, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Palynological analysis is shown from published and unpublished Canadian examples to be a useful tool in forensic investigation, although the technique is almost unknown and therefore under-utilized by...
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From:Oceania (Vol. 85, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn Maori cosmology, rivers and other waterways are conceptualised as living ancestors, who have their own life force and spiritual strength. The special status of rivers in Maori society also explains why they are...
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From:NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAS INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN LATIN AMERICA increasingly gain title to collective territories, they enjoy a new degree of security in terms of their future access to land. They also face new challenges. The residents of...
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From:NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF BERNARDO Vasquez's murder, I was asked to do a photo exhibit in Vasquez's hometown of San Jose del Progreso, featuring movements in opposition to mining in Mexico and Guatemala. I agreed,...
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From:The Contemporary Pacific (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn New Caledonia, pro-independence leaders perceive economic autonomy as a prerequisite for political independence. The Koniambo Project, a joint venture between a Canadian multinational and a local mining company, is...
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From:NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 42, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDECEMBER 16 WAS NOT A DAY OF JOY FOR Aida Quilcue and her family. While most Colombians were kicking off the first night of La Novena, the traditional nine-day countdown for Christmas, Quilcue, a leader and at the time...
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From:Journal of the Southwest (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn the early 1970s, tourists flocked to the lavish Furnace Creek Inn in the heart of Death Valley National Monument. With its swimming pools, palm-shaded gardens, and fine dining, the hotel seemed every bit the American...