Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: When Indigenous nations' sacred and cultural sites are threatened, legal disputes often frame land in one of two ways: either land is sacred, or it is property. In Land is Kin, Dana Lloyd argues that this positioning is inadequate. Not only does it facilitate the damage and destruction of sacred sites, but it fails to appreciate the familial responsibilities we all have to country. In this review essay, I outline Lloyd's argument and suggest that emerging treaty processes in Australia offer one way to ground a deeper appreciation of land within Australian law and society.
Source: Sydney law review
DOI: 10.30722/slr.20331
Author: Harry Hobbs
Institution: UNSW Sydney
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: Australian Research Council
OpenAlex ID: W4404136953