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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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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Sage Publ.
1993
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Pacifica
Год: 1993, Том: 6, Выпуск: 1, Страницы: 61-80 |
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| Итог: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1839-2598 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Pacifica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/1030570X9300600104 |