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jessica weir
I have always been
interested in the place where social justice and ecological justice
arguments meet. At my high school in Sydney I wondered about these
issues on a global scale. At university I studied geography and
international politics, and I went to Nepal and Bangladesh with the
Swiss peace program Service Civil International.
Later I completed a Masters in Environmental Management and Development
Studies, and wrote my thesis about the politics of biodiversity
conservation as an aid program. In 1998 I spent a year in Bangkok
working with Terra on livelihood and environmental issues in the
Mekong. From travelling the world, and working with activists,
ethicists and philosophers, I learnt that it was at home that I had the
most knowledge, the most responsibility and was the most accountable.
Currently I am a Visiting Research Fellow in Native Title Research Unit
at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Studies. At the NTRU I am working with native title holders across
Australia, to document their experiences with the native title system.
I am also working to extend our understandings of native title within
the context of ecological relationships, ecological change, and
ecological destruction. I recently completed my PhD, working with the
traditional owners from the Murray River who are lobbying government
over the destruction of the inland river country. They taught me
connectivity thinking. This work is detailed on my Ecological Dialogue
project page.
Recent Selected
Publications
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Weir, J. accepted. Murray River Country, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
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Weir, J. forthcoming. The
Gunditjmara Land
Justice Story, Native Title Research Unit, AIATSIS, Canberra.
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Strelein,
L. and J. Weir. In press. ‘Conservation and Human Rights in the Context of
Native Title in Australia’,
book chapter in Exploring Issues and Opportunities in Rights Based Approaches to
Conservation, CIFOR,
IUCN and CEESP, Bogor,
Indonesia.
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Weir, J. 2008 'Connectivity',
Australian Humanities Review,
45, pp.153-164
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Weir J 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.
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Weir J. 2007 ‘Native title
and Governance: the emerging corporate sector prescribed for native title
holders’, Land, Rights, Laws: Issues of Native Title, 3(9):1-16.
Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
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Weir J. 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.
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Morgan M,
Strelein L and J 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.
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Weir, J. 2006 "Making
the connection between water and sustaining Indigenous cultural life",
People, Practice and Policy, April 2006.
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Morgan M, Strelein L and J
Weir. 2004. Indigenous
Rights to Water in the Murray Darling Basin In support of the
Indigenous final report to the Living Murray Initiative, Research Discussion
Paper # 14, Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.
- Strelein L,
Dodson M and J 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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