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Dr Jessica Weir
Research Fellow, Native Title Research Unit
Visiting Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University
Jessica’s research focus is on the governance of native title lands and waters, and the interlinking debates of ecological and social justice. Her research is supported by research agreements and research action partnerships with Indigenous people in south east Australia and the Kimberley. Jessica is the author of Murray River Country: An Ecological Dialogue with Traditional Owners published by Aboriginal Studies Press, 2009. Jessica has also worked on environmental management and livelihood issues in Thailand and Bangladesh. In 2011 Jessica convened the program for the National Native Title Conference
Current Research Focus
Jessica’s research has a particular focus on the NTRU projects in Native Title Corporations, Native Title and Ecology, and Native Title and Freshwater.
Recent Selected Publications
- Weir, J.K. 2011. Karajarri: A West Kimberley Experience in Managing Native Title, AIATSIS Research Discussion Paper, No 30.
- Weir, J. K. 2011. 'Water planning and Dispossession', in Connell D and R. Q Grafton, Basin Futures: Water Reform in the Murray-Darling Basin, ANU Epress.
- Weir J.K. 2010 'Cultural Flows in Murray River Country', Australian Humanities Review, 48, pp. 131-142.
- Strelein, L. and J. K. Weir. 2009. ‘Conservation and Human Rights in the Context of Native Title in Australia’, book chapter in Campese, J, Sunderland, T, Greiber, T and G Oviedo (eds) Exploring Issues and Opportunities in Rights Based Approaches to Conservation (
4.07 Mb), CIFOR, IUCN and CEESP, Bogor, Indonesia. - Weir, J.K. 2009, Murray River Country: An Ecological Dialogue with Traditional Owners, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, pp.i-xvi, 1-175.
- Weir, J. K. 2009 'Our understandings of water and how they translate into our decision making
’, workshop paper, ACT Planning and Land Authority workshop Planning for our Future – Securing Canberra’s Water, pp.1-7. - Weir, J.K. 2009 'The Gunditjmara Land Justice Story' ( 2.61 Mb), Research Monograph 1/2009, Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.
- Weir, J.K. 2008 'Connectivity' ( 127 Kb), Australian Humanities Review, 45, pp.153-164
- Weir J.K and S Ross 2007 “Beyond Native Title: Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations”, in F Morphy and B R Smith (eds), The Social Effects of Native Title: Recognition, Translation, Coexistence, CAEPR Research Monograph No. 27, ANU E-Press.
- Weir J.K. 2007 ‘Native title and Governance: the emerging corporate sector prescribed for native title holders’ ( 191 Kb), Land, Rights, Laws: Issues of Native Title, 3(9):1-16. Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
- Weir J.K. 2007 “The traditional owner experience along the Murray River”, in E Potter, S Mackenzie, A Mackinnon, and J Mackay (eds), Fresh Water: New Perspectives on Water in Australia, Melbourne University Press.
- Morgan M, Strelein L and J.K. Weir. 2006 "Authority, knowledge and values: Indigenous Nations engagement in the management of natural resources in the Murray-Darling Basin", in M Langton, O Mazel, L Palmer, K Shain and M Tehan (eds) Settling with Indigenous peoples, The Federation Press, Sydney.
- Morgan M, Strelein L and J.K. Weir. 2004. Indigenous Rights to Water in the Murray Darling Basin: In support of the Indigenous final report to the Living Murray Initiative ( 1.25 Mb), Research Discussion Paper # 14, Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.
- Strelein L, Dodson M and J.K. Weir. 2001. Understanding Non-discrimination: Native Title Law and Policy in a Human Rights Context, Balayi: Culture, Law and Colonialism, Vol 3, pp 113-48.
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