Property as Governance

Time, Space and Belonging in A ustralia's N orthern Territory Intervention

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9196871
AutoresSarah Keenan (0000-0003-4258-3331, SOAS University of London, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen76
Número3
Páginas464-493
Fecha de publicación2013-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaModern Law Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0026-7961 • E-ISSN: 1468-2230
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-2230.12021
OpenAlexW1911976407
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas27

This article analyses two cases brought by aboriginal A ustralians against the A ustralian government acquisition of long leases of their land under the N orthern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007. These leases are conspicuous, particularly in that the government always made it clear that it would not take up its right to exclusive possession of the leased land, and has not done so. The leases have not been used to evict residents, as some feared; nor to pursue mining or agricultural activity. Socio‐legal theories centered on the right to exclusive possession cannot account for these leases. The article explores the use of property under the 2007 Act, the legal geographies of the areas subject to the leases and the political potency of property beyond exclusive possession, and suggests an understanding of property as a spatially contingent relation of belonging. Specifically, the article argues that property is productive of temporal and spatial order and so can function as a tool of governance

Agriculture · Business · Corporate governance · Economics · Expropriation · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Intervention (counseling) · Land tenure · Law and economics · Order (exchange) · Political science · Politics · Possession (linguistics) · Property (philosophy) · Property law · Property rights · Space (punctuation) · Finance · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Law · Legal principles and applications · Mining and Resource Management