From Blue Community Ambassador Erin O’Donnell:
An excellent overview of aqua nullius. I will be using this as a core reading in my future classes and I encourage everyone to read it.
–>Aqua Nullius
“Invader-settlers’ separation of water and land, facilitating the extractive and exploitative understanding of water as a resource, is far removed from First Nations recognition of the inseparability of Country… and reciprocal, relational understandings of water as living entities or kin.
“Continuing to clutch at the myth, aqua nullius provides the colonizer a distinct advantage in the “competition” for the water integral to the colonial project and thus remains a structural feature of… settler-states, water law, governance and science.””
