Human Rights as Land Rights in the Pacific

Do human rights in their conventional, Western understanding really meet the needs of Pacific peoples? This article argues that land rights are a better clue to those needs. In Aboriginal Australia, Fiji, West Papua and Papua New Guinea, case studies show that people's relationship to land is r...

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Autor principal: May, John d'Arcy 1942- (Author)
Tipo de documento: Recurso Electrónico Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
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Publicado em: Sage Publ. 1993
Em: Pacifica
Ano: 1993, Volume: 6, Número: 1, Páginas: 61-80
Acesso em linha: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:Não eletrônico
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Resumo:Do human rights in their conventional, Western understanding really meet the needs of Pacific peoples? This article argues that land rights are a better clue to those needs. In Aboriginal Australia, Fiji, West Papua and Papua New Guinea, case studies show that people's relationship to land is religious and implicitly theological. The article therefore suggests that rights to land need to be supplemented by rights of the land extending to the earth as the home of the one human community and nature as the matrix of all life.
ISSN:1839-2598
Obras secundárias:Enthalten in: Pacifica
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/1030570X9300600104