Samantha Muller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3719484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samantha Muller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samantha |
| FAMILY NAME | Muller |
| SIGNATURE | MÜLLER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2751-2359 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 165 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
"Whiteness" and natural resource management: Let's Talk About Race Baby, Let's Talk About Sovereignty
Issues of race and sovereignty are embedded in every cross-cultural collaboration in natural resource management (NRM). This article aims to bring these issues to the forefront by incorporating the term whiteness. Whiteness enables a critique of the privileging of Western sovereignty and the so-called objective and universal value of Western science. By reversing the gaze away from the colonised Other and onto systems descended from colonial auth…
Indigenous sovereignties: Relational Ontologies and Environmental Management
Indigenous nations have always and continue to assert their sovereignties to resist colonialism. This paper makes explicit the ways in which environmental management has been and continues to act as a tool of colonialism, particularly by privileging Western science, institutions, and administrative procedures. We argue that to decolonise environmental management, it is crucial to understand and challenge the power relations that underlie it-askin…
A new direction for water management? Indigenous nation building as a strategy for river health
Hemming, S., D. Rigney, S. L. Muller, G. Rigney, and I. Campbell. 2017. A new direction for water management? Indigenous nation building as a strategy for river health. Ecology and Society 22(2):13. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08982-220213
Co-motion: Making space to care for country
Intercultural capacity deficits: Contested geographies of coexistence in natural resource management
Focusing on the coexistence of competing and contested interests in intercultural natural resource management ( NRM ) systems in A ustralia and M alaysia, this paper explores the ways in which ontological pluralism and the interplay of socio‐cultural, political–economic and biophysical influences shape NRM systems. We aim to foster a discursive space in which to reframe the challenges of capacity building in the rapidly changing spaces of intercu…
Questioning generosity in the golden age of philanthropy: Towards critical geographies of super-philanthropy
This is the golden age of philanthropy. Over the 55-year period 1998–2052, bequests to charity in the USA alone are estimated to be between $109 and $454 billion per year. This paper exhorts geographers to give critical attention to less-than-charitable consequences of the so-called ‘new philanthropy’ among the super-rich. It sets out a number of areas that appear to warrant critical geographical inquiry, including: bonds between philanthropic en…
That Tiny, Stratospheric Apex That Owns Most of the World'- Exploring Geographies of the Super-Rich
This paper exhorts geographers to give critical attention to the super-rich, defined as individuals with investable assets in excess of $1 million. The super-rich currently number almost 11 million globally (2011) and have collective wealth in excess of $42 trillion. We argue that as a result of our discipline's typical, and not unjustifiable, focus on the poor and middle class, and our neglect of the super-rich, geographers may both be overlooki…
Leaching the poison – The importance of process and partnership in working with Yolngu
Quarantine Matters: Quotidian Relationships around Quarantine in Australia's Northern Borderlands
This paper investigates practices of border formation through an analysis of Australia's quarantine processes. We use the work of the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS), through the Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy (NAQS), to interrogate the ways in which borders are made and remade in daily life. By exploring quotidian practices of quarantine we argue that borders are the sites of complex and fluid relationships that are c…
Indigenous Payment for Environmental Service (PES) Opportunities in the Northern Territory: Negotiating with customs
Recent government initiatives have acknowledged Indigenous ranger groups in the ‘top end’ (northern region) of the Northern Territory (NT), Australia, for their holistic role in environmental management and community development. The services provided by these groups are of national significance with respect to biodiversity protection, ongoing cultural maintenance, employment for remote communities, border protection, and biosecurity. The present…
Accountability Constructions, Contestations and Implications: Insights from Working in a Yolngu Cross-Cultural Institution, Australia
Accountability, a keyword in the development discourse, also takes centre stage in the practical politics of the development processes. Accountability requirements for funding, governance and recognition operate at multiple scales to ensure standards are complied with, funds are accounted for, corruption is minimised, and the impact government and other donor contributions have on the development process is maximised. However, for many intended b…
Towards Decolonisation of Australia's Protected Area Management: The Nantawarrina Indigenous Protected Area Experience
Management of Australia's National Parks and Protected Areas originally developed according to the United State's ‘Yellowstone’ model. Aimed primarily at preserving ‘wilderness’ areas, this form of protected area management has excluded indigenous habitation and land management, effectively colonising these landscapes. Since the 1980s indigenous exclusion from protected area management has been contested in the public sphere. Indigenous peoples h…
Indigenous sovereignties: Relational Ontologies and Environmental Management
Indigenous nations have always and continue to assert their sovereignties to resist colonialism. This paper makes explicit the ways in which environmental management has been and continues to act as a tool of colonialism, particularly by privileging Western science, institutions, and administrative procedures. We argue that to decolonise environmental management, it is crucial to understand and challenge the power relations that underlie it-askin…
Questioning generosity in the golden age of philanthropy: Towards critical geographies of super-philanthropy
This is the golden age of philanthropy. Over the 55-year period 1998–2052, bequests to charity in the USA alone are estimated to be between $109 and $454 billion per year. This paper exhorts geographers to give critical attention to less-than-charitable consequences of the so-called ‘new philanthropy’ among the super-rich. It sets out a number of areas that appear to warrant critical geographical inquiry, including: bonds between philanthropic en…
Leaching the poison – The importance of process and partnership in working with Yolngu
That Tiny, Stratospheric Apex That Owns Most of the World'- Exploring Geographies of the Super-Rich
This paper exhorts geographers to give critical attention to the super-rich, defined as individuals with investable assets in excess of $1 million. The super-rich currently number almost 11 million globally (2011) and have collective wealth in excess of $42 trillion. We argue that as a result of our discipline's typical, and not unjustifiable, focus on the poor and middle class, and our neglect of the super-rich, geographers may both be overlooki…
Co-motion: Making space to care for country
Towards Decolonisation of Australia's Protected Area Management: The Nantawarrina Indigenous Protected Area Experience
Management of Australia's National Parks and Protected Areas originally developed according to the United State's ‘Yellowstone’ model. Aimed primarily at preserving ‘wilderness’ areas, this form of protected area management has excluded indigenous habitation and land management, effectively colonising these landscapes. Since the 1980s indigenous exclusion from protected area management has been contested in the public sphere. Indigenous peoples h…
Intercultural capacity deficits: Contested geographies of coexistence in natural resource management
Focusing on the coexistence of competing and contested interests in intercultural natural resource management ( NRM ) systems in A ustralia and M alaysia, this paper explores the ways in which ontological pluralism and the interplay of socio‐cultural, political–economic and biophysical influences shape NRM systems. We aim to foster a discursive space in which to reframe the challenges of capacity building in the rapidly changing spaces of intercu…
Quarantine Matters: Quotidian Relationships around Quarantine in Australia's Northern Borderlands
This paper investigates practices of border formation through an analysis of Australia's quarantine processes. We use the work of the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS), through the Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy (NAQS), to interrogate the ways in which borders are made and remade in daily life. By exploring quotidian practices of quarantine we argue that borders are the sites of complex and fluid relationships that are c…
Accountability Constructions, Contestations and Implications: Insights from Working in a Yolngu Cross-Cultural Institution, Australia
Accountability, a keyword in the development discourse, also takes centre stage in the practical politics of the development processes. Accountability requirements for funding, governance and recognition operate at multiple scales to ensure standards are complied with, funds are accounted for, corruption is minimised, and the impact government and other donor contributions have on the development process is maximised. However, for many intended b…
Indigenous Payment for Environmental Service (PES) Opportunities in the Northern Territory: Negotiating with customs
Recent government initiatives have acknowledged Indigenous ranger groups in the ‘top end’ (northern region) of the Northern Territory (NT), Australia, for their holistic role in environmental management and community development. The services provided by these groups are of national significance with respect to biodiversity protection, ongoing cultural maintenance, employment for remote communities, border protection, and biosecurity. The present…
A new direction for water management? Indigenous nation building as a strategy for river health
Hemming, S., D. Rigney, S. L. Muller, G. Rigney, and I. Campbell. 2017. A new direction for water management? Indigenous nation building as a strategy for river health. Ecology and Society 22(2):13. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08982-220213
"Whiteness" and natural resource management: Let's Talk About Race Baby, Let's Talk About Sovereignty
Issues of race and sovereignty are embedded in every cross-cultural collaboration in natural resource management (NRM). This article aims to bring these issues to the forefront by incorporating the term whiteness. Whiteness enables a critique of the privileging of Western sovereignty and the so-called objective and universal value of Western science. By reversing the gaze away from the colonised Other and onto systems descended from colonial auth…
Towards Decolonisation of Australia's Protected Area Management: The Nantawarrina Indigenous Protected Area Experience
Management of Australia's National Parks and Protected Areas originally developed according to the United State's ‘Yellowstone’ model. Aimed primarily at preserving ‘wilderness’ areas, this form of protected area management has excluded indigenous habitation and land management, effectively colonising these landscapes. Since the 1980s indigenous exclusion from protected area management has been contested in the public sphere. Indigenous peoples h…
Indigenous Payment for Environmental Service (PES) Opportunities in the Northern Territory: Negotiating with customs
Recent government initiatives have acknowledged Indigenous ranger groups in the ‘top end’ (northern region) of the Northern Territory (NT), Australia, for their holistic role in environmental management and community development. The services provided by these groups are of national significance with respect to biodiversity protection, ongoing cultural maintenance, employment for remote communities, border protection, and biosecurity. The present…
Accountability Constructions, Contestations and Implications: Insights from Working in a Yolngu Cross-Cultural Institution, Australia
Accountability, a keyword in the development discourse, also takes centre stage in the practical politics of the development processes. Accountability requirements for funding, governance and recognition operate at multiple scales to ensure standards are complied with, funds are accounted for, corruption is minimised, and the impact government and other donor contributions have on the development process is maximised. However, for many intended b…
Leaching the poison – The importance of process and partnership in working with Yolngu
Quarantine Matters: Quotidian Relationships around Quarantine in Australia's Northern Borderlands
This paper investigates practices of border formation through an analysis of Australia's quarantine processes. We use the work of the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS), through the Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy (NAQS), to interrogate the ways in which borders are made and remade in daily life. By exploring quotidian practices of quarantine we argue that borders are the sites of complex and fluid relationships that are c…
That Tiny, Stratospheric Apex That Owns Most of the World'- Exploring Geographies of the Super-Rich
This paper exhorts geographers to give critical attention to the super-rich, defined as individuals with investable assets in excess of $1 million. The super-rich currently number almost 11 million globally (2011) and have collective wealth in excess of $42 trillion. We argue that as a result of our discipline's typical, and not unjustifiable, focus on the poor and middle class, and our neglect of the super-rich, geographers may both be overlooki…
Intercultural capacity deficits: Contested geographies of coexistence in natural resource management
Focusing on the coexistence of competing and contested interests in intercultural natural resource management ( NRM ) systems in A ustralia and M alaysia, this paper explores the ways in which ontological pluralism and the interplay of socio‐cultural, political–economic and biophysical influences shape NRM systems. We aim to foster a discursive space in which to reframe the challenges of capacity building in the rapidly changing spaces of intercu…
Questioning generosity in the golden age of philanthropy: Towards critical geographies of super-philanthropy
This is the golden age of philanthropy. Over the 55-year period 1998–2052, bequests to charity in the USA alone are estimated to be between $109 and $454 billion per year. This paper exhorts geographers to give critical attention to less-than-charitable consequences of the so-called ‘new philanthropy’ among the super-rich. It sets out a number of areas that appear to warrant critical geographical inquiry, including: bonds between philanthropic en…
Co-motion: Making space to care for country
A new direction for water management? Indigenous nation building as a strategy for river health
Hemming, S., D. Rigney, S. L. Muller, G. Rigney, and I. Campbell. 2017. A new direction for water management? Indigenous nation building as a strategy for river health. Ecology and Society 22(2):13. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08982-220213
"Whiteness" and natural resource management: Let's Talk About Race Baby, Let's Talk About Sovereignty
Issues of race and sovereignty are embedded in every cross-cultural collaboration in natural resource management (NRM). This article aims to bring these issues to the forefront by incorporating the term whiteness. Whiteness enables a critique of the privileging of Western sovereignty and the so-called objective and universal value of Western science. By reversing the gaze away from the colonised Other and onto systems descended from colonial auth…
Indigenous sovereignties: Relational Ontologies and Environmental Management
Indigenous nations have always and continue to assert their sovereignties to resist colonialism. This paper makes explicit the ways in which environmental management has been and continues to act as a tool of colonialism, particularly by privileging Western science, institutions, and administrative procedures. We argue that to decolonise environmental management, it is crucial to understand and challenge the power relations that underlie it-askin…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Indigenous (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works)