Terra Nullius: A Journey Through no One's Land

Foley, Dennis; Barnes, Jillian

doi:10.1017/s1326011100016252

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“…The colonial government made general claims to free land or uncultivated land as a part of the Dutch colonial state property, and they had the right to lease it to other third parties (Halkis, 2006;van Vollenhoven, 2013). This claim was also similar to the British colonialist's claim over the colonised lands, such as in Australia or in New Zealand, named the terra-nullius doctrine (Connor, 2005;Feiring, 2013;Lindqvist, 2007). To legalise their claim, the NEI State also enacted the Land Lease Ordinance 1871.…”

Section: From the State-domain To The State-control Doctrinesmentioning

confidence: 75%

The application of international cultural rights in protecting Indigenous peoples’ land property in Indonesia

Fahmi (Acehnese)

2024

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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Since the Indonesian government adopted the Agrarian Law 1960, which emphasises that any lands or territories without land title or land certificate are claimed belong to the state property, Indigenous peoples argue that the right over their land is based on a common recognition, instead of an official certification. This article aims to analyse the applicability of international cultural rights’ norms in protecting Indigenous rights to land in Indonesia. Several international instruments, such as the UNESCO Conventions, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, have been urged that any government shall respect and protect cultural rights for everyone, including Indigenous peoples. Therefore, protecting Indigenous intangible and tangible cultural heritage would not be possible without protecting their ancestral lands, territories and resources. In other words, securing the right to traditional lands is a prerequisite for Indigenous communities’ cultural survival in Indonesia.

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Section: From the State-domain To The State-control Doctrinesmentioning

confidence: 75%

The application of international cultural rights in protecting Indigenous peoples’ land property in Indonesia

Fahmi (Acehnese)

2024

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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“…Hoffmann (2018) too describes how the Middle East's landscapes are frequently portrayed as 'fragile, alien, and hostile', and this creates an 'imperial Oriental imagination' that blames societies and states for mismanaging resources to justify ongoing imperial control. The history of terra nullius moreover is a disturbing story of how no-man's [sic] land became the province of the White man, operating as an inhuman geography, a legal fiction in international law enabling the remaking of landscapes viewed as empty (see Lindqvist, 2007).…”

Section: Decolonising Geography Through the Landscapementioning

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Reimagining landscape: Materiality, decoloniality, and creativity

Mason,

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2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Geographers have been engaging with landscape since the beginning of the modern discipline of geography. A series of concurrent turns have taken place in human geography in recent years that are influencing the ways in which geographers approach landscape. We take forward new material, decolonial, and creative shifts in the discipline to reimagine landscape. Landscape is a geographical concept that has historically excluded a range of other voices and perspectives. To build a radically inclusive agenda for landscape research in geography, we put forward a generative conceptualisation of landscape that brings together (i) materiality; (ii) decoloniality; and (iii) creativity.

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“…As demonstrated by Britain's enclosures in India, prejudices of class-among other forms of difference-and associated mental geographies were fundamental to the rise of capitalism and the European imperial project. Whether in the form of "terra nullius" (Lindqvist, 2007) or enclosure of the commons as part of the colonial or nation-state-building process (Fields, 2017;Nevins, 2021), particular ways of seeing the classed, imperialized, or racialized "others" were (and remain) inextricably tied to geographic imaginaries and associated processes of possession and dispossession. Inherent in such geographies are territorial borders, the production and maintenance of which in a context of inequality is a necessarily violent endeavor.…”

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A tourist, not a god: Mike Davis, radical geographer

Nevins

2023

Human Geography

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Mike Davis (1946–2022) was a leftist intellectual and activist, in addition to a prolific author on myriad subjects. His major writings focused on topics that included power relations and inequality in US cities, particularly in Southern California: the history of the car bomb; the ties between climate change, empire, and famine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; the explosive growth of shantytowns in the global South; and the political ecology of global pandemics. Trained as a historian, Davis, in many of his works, heavily engaged geographical scholarship, both human and biophysical. While he is perhaps best known for his outsized contributions to urban geography, he also had a major impact on radical geography. Herein, I explore Davis's contributions to three areas of concern to radical geographers: cultural geography, political ecology, and borders and territoriality. In doing so, I focus primarily on four of his books: City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, and The Monster Enters. In the end, I consider Davis's ethics and implicit critique of modernity, as well as his geographies of justice and hope.

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Terra Nullius: A Journey Through no One's Land

Cited by 6 publications

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The application of international cultural rights in protecting Indigenous peoples’ land property in Indonesia

The application of international cultural rights in protecting Indigenous peoples’ land property in Indonesia

Reimagining landscape: Materiality, decoloniality, and creativity

A tourist, not a god: Mike Davis, radical geographer

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