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Just Add Water: Colonisation, Water Governance, And The Australian Inland, Leah Maree Gibbs
Just Add Water: Colonisation, Water Governance, And The Australian Inland, Leah Maree Gibbs
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Water has played a key role in the development of the Australian inland and the nation. For European colonists, the dry and variable landscape challenged ideas about nature imported from northern temperate regions. I argue first, that colonists brought with them ideas for ordering nature and tools for transforming landscapes that led to inappropriate and destructive water management and the silencing of local voices and knowledge systems. Secondly, colonial patterns of ordering and transforming landscapes are ongoing, but new ways of governing water, which challenge colonialism, are emerging. In the first section of the paper I discuss colonial relationships with …