Table of Contents

Foreword; Preface; Narratives & their Relations; Water Management in the Murray-Darling Basin; Connectivity, Loss & Resilience; Setting the Negotiable Table; Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations; 'Deplete, Destroy, Depart?"; References; Index.

About the Author

Jessica K. Weir is a research fellow at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. She is a human geographer whose research focuses on ecological and social issues in Australia.

Reviews

"Place, country, and care are at the heart of this wise book, which is so astutely responsive to the diverse, active Aboriginal individuals and nations of the Murray-Darling Basin . . . Weir's book gives me hope that these blasted places and the lives of so many species, human and not, might again be whole, in new ways and old." --Donna Haraway, professor, University of California-Santa Cruz

"This is a really positive book with some original and creative suggestions for ways forward." --Dr. Libby Robin, Australian National University and the National Museum of Australia

"Weir demonstrates that there is only one narrative and it encompasses both the claims of the water managers and their critics; both the settler and Indigenous narratives." --Richie Howitt, professor, Macquarie University

"Weir's originality is innovative and inspirational. She captures the MRC Indigenous people's holistic approach in reading the ecological statements of managing water and the benefits of this for everyone and the MRC's ecology." --Dr. Payi-Linda Ford, senior lecturer, Charles Darwin University