Modernising Water: Articulating Custom in Water Governance in Australia and East Timor
The modernisation of water governance, which can entail resource commoditisation and privatisation, requires the reformation of water allocation institutions. In many parts of the world, such transformations have empowered statutory systems to dominate or marginalise parallel, extant customary syste...
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| description | The modernisation of water governance, which can entail resource commoditisation and privatisation, requires the reformation of water allocation institutions. In many parts of the world, such transformations have empowered statutory systems to dominate or marginalise parallel, extant customary systems of water governance. The water policy and management frameworks of Australia and East Timor (Timor-Leste) are at different stages of a modernisation trajectory; yet, both have extant systems of customary governance and so lend themselves to a comparative analysis. This paper describes the institutions and negotiating arenas through which indigenous peoples of these two countries seek to define, increase or influence their access to water, and the legitimacy of their water related values, ethics, and practices. Institutional transformations are compared alongside local efforts to create space for the co-existence of custom while improving the economic standing of Indigenous and local populations and the environmental quality of their territories. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-eedff5c485ec499a9205811cc00927b52022-12-21T20:28:41ZengUniversity of Western OntarioInternational Indigenous Policy Journal1916-57812012-11-01337Modernising Water: Articulating Custom in Water Governance in Australia and East TimorSue E. JacksonLisa R. PalmerThe modernisation of water governance, which can entail resource commoditisation and privatisation, requires the reformation of water allocation institutions. In many parts of the world, such transformations have empowered statutory systems to dominate or marginalise parallel, extant customary systems of water governance. The water policy and management frameworks of Australia and East Timor (Timor-Leste) are at different stages of a modernisation trajectory; yet, both have extant systems of customary governance and so lend themselves to a comparative analysis. This paper describes the institutions and negotiating arenas through which indigenous peoples of these two countries seek to define, increase or influence their access to water, and the legitimacy of their water related values, ethics, and practices. Institutional transformations are compared alongside local efforts to create space for the co-existence of custom while improving the economic standing of Indigenous and local populations and the environmental quality of their territories.http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1077&context=iipjcustomary water governanceIndigenous water rightswater reformEast TimorAustraliawater resource management |
| spellingShingle | Sue E. Jackson Lisa R. Palmer Modernising Water: Articulating Custom in Water Governance in Australia and East Timor International Indigenous Policy Journal customary water governance Indigenous water rights water reform East Timor Australia water resource management |
| title | Modernising Water: Articulating Custom in Water Governance in Australia and East Timor |
| title_full | Modernising Water: Articulating Custom in Water Governance in Australia and East Timor |
| title_fullStr | Modernising Water: Articulating Custom in Water Governance in Australia and East Timor |
| title_full_unstemmed | Modernising Water: Articulating Custom in Water Governance in Australia and East Timor |
| title_short | Modernising Water: Articulating Custom in Water Governance in Australia and East Timor |
| title_sort | modernising water articulating custom in water governance in australia and east timor |
| topic | customary water governance Indigenous water rights water reform East Timor Australia water resource management |
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