Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0211554

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0211554

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

A history of terra nullius. The concept of 'terra nullius' has been central to debates concerning the land rights of indigenous peoples. The term, however, has been understood almost in an historical vacuum. Partly in consequence, landmark legal rulings supposedly overturning the doctrine of terra nullius have left European colonisers' justifications of their appropriation of land largely conceptually intact. The central innovation of this history will be to show that when terra nullius, properly understood, is rejected in order to establish native title, the implications for the European tradition of property rights and human rights more generally will be profound.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 05-2002

End Date: 12-2005

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $127,240.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

History and Philosophy Of Specific Fields | History: Other | History Of Philosophy And History Of Ideas

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ownership of the land |

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