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« The struggle against settler colonial climate change: Sadie Beaton, Emily Eaton, Michelle Paul, ‘Peace and Friendship on the Sipekne’katik: Treaty as a Transformational Practice in the Resistance against Alton Gas’, ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 2026
Exposure to settler colonialism: Adhika Ezra, Amber J. Fletcher, Laurie Clune, ‘Beyond exposure: neoliberal homeless governance and climate vulnerability in a settler colonial context’, Environmental Sociology, 2026 »

Water is not for settlers to monopolise: K. Harriden, ‘Aqua Nullius’, in Nathanaël Wallenhorst, Christoph Wulf (eds), Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene: Pluriversal Perspectives, Springer, 2026

21Feb26

Excerpt: Aqua nullius, or how the settler-state “governments’ lack of inclusion of Indigenous water rights and interests resembles Australia’s western framing of Indigenous land rights—shaped by the doctrine of terra nullius—and reconstructs Indigenous water rights as aqua nullius or ‘water belonging to no one’”.

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