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    The Strain to Hold Ground: Site-Based Conflict and an Indigenous Ideology of Water and Place

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    Authors
    Heckenberg, Robyn
    Date
    2019
    Type
    Book Chapter
    
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    Source Title
    The Nexus among Place, Conflict and Communication in a Globalising World
    ISBN
    9811359253
    9789811359255
    Faculty
    Centre for Aboriginal Studies
    School
    Centre for Aboriginal Studies
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88516
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    In terms of duties and obligations, Indigenous peoples hold true to stories about the way to treat and respect the land, the water and the sky, yet globally water and land resources, in particular, have become locations of conflict. The degradation of the rivers, and of the land associated with resourcing water, creates sites of conflict between commercial capitalist ideology and Indigenous utilitarian and spiritual difference. ‘The strain to hold ground’ analyses the clash in ideology between the Australian contemporary colonial state and Indigenous interests and value systems. The research is substantiated by a number of examples of intercultural communication break-down, where the nexus between place and cultural difference manifests as conflict arising from the uneven relationship between the colonised and the coloniser.

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