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Other People s Country thinks through the entangled objects of law legislation, policies, institutions, treaties and so on that govern waters and that make bodies of water lawful within settler colonial sites today. Informed by the theoretical interventions of cosmopolitics and political ecology, each opening up new approaches to questions of politics and the political, the chapters in this book locate these insights within material settler colonial places rather than abstract structures of domination. A claim to water whether by Indigenous peoples or settlers is not simply a claim to a...

Beginning with the nineteenth-century expeditions, Northern Australia has been both a fascination and concern to the administrators of settler governance in Australia. With Southeast Asia and Melanesia as neighbors, the region's expansive and relatively undeveloped tropical savanna lands are alternately framed as a market opportunity, an ecological prize, a threat to national sovereignty, and a social welfare problem. Over the last several decades, while developers have eagerly promoted the mineral and agricultural potential of its monsoonal catchments, conservationists speak of these same...