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Yoongoorrookoo

Identification

Clé publique

doi:10.1080/10383441.2021.1996882

Auteurs

Martuwarra · Alessandro · Anne · Afshin · Cristy · Sarah · Elizabeth · Katie · Erin · John

Année déclarée

2021

Langue déclarée

en · eng

Type source

Article

Première détection

2026-11-09T19:04:47.851456+00:00

Dernière observation des métadonnées

2026-11-09T19:15:23.009301+00:00

Dernière vérification HTTP

Non effectuée

Institutions déclarées par la source

Griffith University · Monash University · Queensland University of Technology · Southern Cross University · The University of Melbourne · The University of Notre Dame Australia · University of Canberra · University of Canterbury

Pays d’affiliation déclarés

AU · NZ

Résumé documentaire — langue originale

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 recognisable forms of Nature’s novel subjectivity. The emergence of legal personhood for nature, however, has been far from uncontroversial, and numerous critiques have been advanced against the use of such a legal category – traditionally applied to humans and their abstract creations (such as States and corporations) – to the natural world, resulting in numerous calls for an alternative category of legal personhood (one that some rights of Nature advocates have termed an ‘environmental person’). Against the backdrop of this emerging debate, this paper acknowledges the work undertaken by the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council (Martuwarra Council), which was established in 2018 in the Kimberley region of Western Australia by six independent Indigenous nations to preserve, promote and protect their ancestral River from ongoing destructive ‘development’. The Council believes it is time to recognise the pre-existing and continuing legal authority of Indigenous law, or ‘First Law’, in relation to the River, in order to preserve its integrity through a process of legal decolonisation. First Law differs markedly from its colonial counterpart, as its principles are not articulated in terms of rules, policies and procedures, but rather through stories. This paper, therefore, begins with a dialogical translation of one First Law story relating to Yoongoorrookoo, 1 1 Nyikina elders Rosie Mulligan, Madeline Yanamarra, and Jeannie Warbie, as well as emerging Nyikina leaders, over the past three years have used multiple mediums to translate the stories of Senior Nyikina elder, Joe Nangan: Edwards & Nangan (1976). Furthermore, Anne Poelina, Nyikina leader and Chair of the Martuwarra Council, is working directly with Traditional Owners to privilege the voice and standing of Martuwarra. the ancestral serpent being, 2 2 Yoongoorrookoo is the Nyikina name of the Serpent, which is known by other names by other language groups of the Martuwarra/Fitzroy River catchment as described in the National Heritage listing assessment of the Martuwarra: ‘Martuwarra encompasses four contiguous and distinctive freshwater-based Aboriginal cultural domains, focused upon the tradition of the Rainbow Serpent, as exemplified by the religious traditions of Galaroo, Woonyoomboo-Yoongoorroonkoo, Wanjina- Wunggurr, and the jila-kalpurtu cultural systems. A song line known as Warloongarriy (Walungarri) serves to unite Aboriginal people and their Rainbow Serpent traditions along the Fitzroy River as part of one regional ritual complex, called Warloongarriy Law or “River Law”’ (Australian Government (date unknown), p 168). to create a semantic bridge between two apparently distant legal worldviews. A dialogical comparative analysis is then followed to posit and explore the concept of an ‘ancestral person’ as a novel comparative tool that may be able not only to capture the idea of Nature as a legal subject, but also complex Indigenous worldviews that see Nature–in this case instantiated in the Martuwarra–as an ancestral being enmeshed in a relationship of interdependence and guardianship between the human and the nonhuman world. To instantiate and embody such relationships, the paper directly, and somewhat provocatively, acknowledges the River itself, the Martuwarra RiverOfLife, as the primary participant in such dialogue, an embodied non-human co-author who began a conversation then left to human writers to continue.

Identifiants

DOI

10.1080/10383441.2021.1996882

OPENALEX

W3214347812

HANDLE

10072/426501 · 10092/103790 · 11343/290761 · 11343/292080

OPENAIRE

doi_dedup___::e267edf673d1c8a2b053bb3c1dea7ead

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Famille documentaire

Doctrine

Types déclarés par les sources

Article · article

Entités naturelles mentionnées

Fleuve / rivière

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Sources

OpenAIRE · Document 1

OpenAlex · Document 1 · Document 2 · Document 3 · Document 4 · Document 5 · Document 6

• DOI · https://doi.org/10.1080/10383441.2021.1996882
• Handle · https://hdl.handle.net/10072/426501
• Handle · https://hdl.handle.net/10092/103790
• Handle · https://hdl.handle.net/11343/290761
• Handle · https://hdl.handle.net/11343/292080
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W3214347812

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