Ed O''Donnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 991677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ed O''Donnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ed |
| FAMILY NAME | O''Donnell |
| SIGNATURE | DONNELL E O |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2615-8012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
River grabbing from the source: Groundwater extraction and the self-perpetuating colonial practices of dispossession in Australia's Northern Territory
Indigenous people of the Roper River in Australia's Northern Territory (NT) have strong legal rights to most of the land through which the river flows, including its bed and banks. Yet the settler-colonial state asserts control over its waters, whether flowing across or under the surface of the land. We show that the Northern Territory government has applied lessons from its colonial history of land grabbing to thwart Indigenous claims to water, …
Law and the Environment: An Act of Legal Kintsugi
Water courses and discourses: A media content analysis of environmental water reporting in Australia
This study presents the findings of a media content analysis (n=303) of articles discussing environmental water (water allocated to the environment in freshwater systems) in the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia across 20 years (2001 – 2021). The aim of the study was to determine the disposition of the articles, the actors (voices) invoked within them, as well as the topics they discuss in relation to environmental water, with a particular emphas…
Ontological Collisions in the Northern Territory's Aboriginal Water Rights Policy
Amid a renewed push to extract water for agriculture and mining, Indigenous advocacy in northern Australia has resulted in the introduction of a new water allocation mechanism: a reserve of water to be retained for the use and benefit of Indigenous communities. Our socio-legal analysis of the Oolloo Water Allocation Plan shows that the Strategic Aboriginal Water Reserves carry essential hallmarks of neoliberal property relations and are founded i…
Recognising personhood: The evolving relationship between the legal person and the state
Relational personhood: A conception of legal personhood with insights from disability rights and environmental law
People with disability have demanded the recognition of full legal personhood in order to realise their rights and to overcome dominance and oppression. Legal personhood is also being claimed for similar reasons for natural entities, including rivers, forests, and mountains. However, the prevailing neo-liberal understanding of legal personhood relies on the individual exercising personhood independently. This may not be enough to secure the inter…
Yoongoorrookoo: The emergence of ancestral personhood
Since the momentous release of the Montecristi Constitution of Ecuador in 2008, which recognised Nature, or Pacha Mama, as a subject of rights, the rights of Nature movement across the world has gained exponential momentum, with numerous jurisdictions worldwide now recognising some form of legal subjectivity vested upon Nature. In particular, since 2017, river personhood has dominated news headlines around the world as one of the most recognisabl…
Rivers as living beings: Rights in law, but no rights to water
Since 2017, some of the most beloved and iconic rivers in the world have been recognised in law as legal persons and/or living entities, with a range of legal rights and protections. These profound legal changes can transform the relationship between people and rivers, and are the result of ongoing leadership from Indigenous peoples and environmental advocates. This paper uses a comparative analysis of the legal and/or living personhood of rivers…
Shield science for robust decisions
Stop Burying the Lede: The Essential Role of Indigenous Law(s) in Creating Rights of Nature
The rapid emergence of rights of Nature over the past decade across multiple contexts has fostered increasing awareness, recognition, and, ultimately, acceptance of rights of Nature by the global community. Yet, too often, both scholarly publications and news articles bury the lede - namely, that the most transformative cases of rights of Nature have been consistently influenced and often actually led by Indigenous peoples. In this article we exp…
Creating legal rights for rivers: Lessons from Australia, New Zealand, and India
As pressures on water resources increase, the demand for innovative institutional arrangements, which address the overuse of water, and underprovision of ecosystem health, is rising. One new and emerging approach is the use of legal personality to protect water systems in law through the granting of legal rights to rivers. This constitutes a significant development in the fields of environmental law and water resources management, yet little anal…
Food Sovereignty, Food Access, and the Local Food Movement in Southeastern North Carolina
Food sovereignty is about the right to healthy food and the right to have control over one’s food. This article examines opportunities and challenges in the efforts of Feast Down East (FDE), a local food systems movement in Southeastern North Carolina, to develop a food sovereignty program linking limited resource consumers and growers in an effort to provide access to healthy, affordable, and culturally appropriate foods in a low-income communit…
The Indian People's Theater Association (Ipta) on film: (Con)testing memory and history in the Bengali theaterscapes of Ritwik Ghatak's Komal Gandhar ( E Flat , 1961)
This piece focuses on the importance of Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak's Komal Gandhar (E Flat, 1961), in providing a cinematic representation of the methods, ideologies, and personalities of the Bengal IPTA, and how Ghatak's construction of the film – particularly his use of sound and song – powerfully expresses the significance of this theatrical movement in Bengal's cultural history. Specifically, I argue that the prominent role of theater in…
The Design of Writing: Unfolding systems of meaning
This article explores the findings of a small research study that asked writers to describe a meaningful, personal incident using first narrative and then poetic forms. The poetry raised many anxieties about writing, including the revelations of subjectivity and the risks in sharing such work with a group. To understand some of the complexities of these responses, the researchers thought of writing as an ecology with interdependent systems influe…
Creating legal rights for rivers: Lessons from Australia, New Zealand, and India
As pressures on water resources increase, the demand for innovative institutional arrangements, which address the overuse of water, and underprovision of ecosystem health, is rising. One new and emerging approach is the use of legal personality to protect water systems in law through the granting of legal rights to rivers. This constitutes a significant development in the fields of environmental law and water resources management, yet little anal…
Stop Burying the Lede: The Essential Role of Indigenous Law(s) in Creating Rights of Nature
The rapid emergence of rights of Nature over the past decade across multiple contexts has fostered increasing awareness, recognition, and, ultimately, acceptance of rights of Nature by the global community. Yet, too often, both scholarly publications and news articles bury the lede - namely, that the most transformative cases of rights of Nature have been consistently influenced and often actually led by Indigenous peoples. In this article we exp…
Water courses and discourses: A media content analysis of environmental water reporting in Australia
This study presents the findings of a media content analysis (n=303) of articles discussing environmental water (water allocated to the environment in freshwater systems) in the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia across 20 years (2001 – 2021). The aim of the study was to determine the disposition of the articles, the actors (voices) invoked within them, as well as the topics they discuss in relation to environmental water, with a particular emphas…
The Indian People's Theater Association (Ipta) on film: (Con)testing memory and history in the Bengali theaterscapes of Ritwik Ghatak's Komal Gandhar ( E Flat , 1961)
This piece focuses on the importance of Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak's Komal Gandhar (E Flat, 1961), in providing a cinematic representation of the methods, ideologies, and personalities of the Bengal IPTA, and how Ghatak's construction of the film – particularly his use of sound and song – powerfully expresses the significance of this theatrical movement in Bengal's cultural history. Specifically, I argue that the prominent role of theater in…
Ontological Collisions in the Northern Territory's Aboriginal Water Rights Policy
Amid a renewed push to extract water for agriculture and mining, Indigenous advocacy in northern Australia has resulted in the introduction of a new water allocation mechanism: a reserve of water to be retained for the use and benefit of Indigenous communities. Our socio-legal analysis of the Oolloo Water Allocation Plan shows that the Strategic Aboriginal Water Reserves carry essential hallmarks of neoliberal property relations and are founded i…
The Design of Writing: Unfolding systems of meaning
This article explores the findings of a small research study that asked writers to describe a meaningful, personal incident using first narrative and then poetic forms. The poetry raised many anxieties about writing, including the revelations of subjectivity and the risks in sharing such work with a group. To understand some of the complexities of these responses, the researchers thought of writing as an ecology with interdependent systems influe…
The Indian People's Theater Association (Ipta) on film: (Con)testing memory and history in the Bengali theaterscapes of Ritwik Ghatak's Komal Gandhar ( E Flat , 1961)
This piece focuses on the importance of Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak's Komal Gandhar (E Flat, 1961), in providing a cinematic representation of the methods, ideologies, and personalities of the Bengal IPTA, and how Ghatak's construction of the film – particularly his use of sound and song – powerfully expresses the significance of this theatrical movement in Bengal's cultural history. Specifically, I argue that the prominent role of theater in…
Food Sovereignty, Food Access, and the Local Food Movement in Southeastern North Carolina
Food sovereignty is about the right to healthy food and the right to have control over one’s food. This article examines opportunities and challenges in the efforts of Feast Down East (FDE), a local food systems movement in Southeastern North Carolina, to develop a food sovereignty program linking limited resource consumers and growers in an effort to provide access to healthy, affordable, and culturally appropriate foods in a low-income communit…
Creating legal rights for rivers: Lessons from Australia, New Zealand, and India
As pressures on water resources increase, the demand for innovative institutional arrangements, which address the overuse of water, and underprovision of ecosystem health, is rising. One new and emerging approach is the use of legal personality to protect water systems in law through the granting of legal rights to rivers. This constitutes a significant development in the fields of environmental law and water resources management, yet little anal…
Rivers as living beings: Rights in law, but no rights to water
Since 2017, some of the most beloved and iconic rivers in the world have been recognised in law as legal persons and/or living entities, with a range of legal rights and protections. These profound legal changes can transform the relationship between people and rivers, and are the result of ongoing leadership from Indigenous peoples and environmental advocates. This paper uses a comparative analysis of the legal and/or living personhood of rivers…
Shield science for robust decisions
Stop Burying the Lede: The Essential Role of Indigenous Law(s) in Creating Rights of Nature
The rapid emergence of rights of Nature over the past decade across multiple contexts has fostered increasing awareness, recognition, and, ultimately, acceptance of rights of Nature by the global community. Yet, too often, both scholarly publications and news articles bury the lede - namely, that the most transformative cases of rights of Nature have been consistently influenced and often actually led by Indigenous peoples. In this article we exp…
Recognising personhood: The evolving relationship between the legal person and the state
Relational personhood: A conception of legal personhood with insights from disability rights and environmental law
People with disability have demanded the recognition of full legal personhood in order to realise their rights and to overcome dominance and oppression. Legal personhood is also being claimed for similar reasons for natural entities, including rivers, forests, and mountains. However, the prevailing neo-liberal understanding of legal personhood relies on the individual exercising personhood independently. This may not be enough to secure the inter…
Yoongoorrookoo: The emergence of ancestral personhood
Since the momentous release of the Montecristi Constitution of Ecuador in 2008, which recognised Nature, or Pacha Mama, as a subject of rights, the rights of Nature movement across the world has gained exponential momentum, with numerous jurisdictions worldwide now recognising some form of legal subjectivity vested upon Nature. In particular, since 2017, river personhood has dominated news headlines around the world as one of the most recognisabl…
Ontological Collisions in the Northern Territory's Aboriginal Water Rights Policy
Amid a renewed push to extract water for agriculture and mining, Indigenous advocacy in northern Australia has resulted in the introduction of a new water allocation mechanism: a reserve of water to be retained for the use and benefit of Indigenous communities. Our socio-legal analysis of the Oolloo Water Allocation Plan shows that the Strategic Aboriginal Water Reserves carry essential hallmarks of neoliberal property relations and are founded i…
Law and the Environment: An Act of Legal Kintsugi
Water courses and discourses: A media content analysis of environmental water reporting in Australia
This study presents the findings of a media content analysis (n=303) of articles discussing environmental water (water allocated to the environment in freshwater systems) in the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia across 20 years (2001 – 2021). The aim of the study was to determine the disposition of the articles, the actors (voices) invoked within them, as well as the topics they discuss in relation to environmental water, with a particular emphas…
River grabbing from the source: Groundwater extraction and the self-perpetuating colonial practices of dispossession in Australia's Northern Territory
Indigenous people of the Roper River in Australia's Northern Territory (NT) have strong legal rights to most of the land through which the river flows, including its bed and banks. Yet the settler-colonial state asserts control over its waters, whether flowing across or under the surface of the land. We show that the Northern Territory government has applied lessons from its colonial history of land grabbing to thwart Indigenous claims to water, …
Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Environmental law and policy (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Indigenous (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Indigenous rights (5 works) · Law and economics (5 works) · Business (4 works)