The Conquest of the Peri-Urban: Sustainability and Postcolonialism

Julie M Matthews; Timothy F Smith; Robert Mangoyana

doi:10.18848/1832-2077/CGP/v05i04/54658

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The Conquest of the Peri-Urban: Sustainability and Postcolonialism

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The Conquest of the Peri-Urban: Sustainability and Postcolonialism

Julie M Matthews, Timothy F Smith and Robert Mangoyana

International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, Vol.5(4), pp.125-134

2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/1832-2077/CGP/v05i04/54658

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Abstract

Philosophy

urban/peri-urban

water

sustainability

postcolonialism

This paper takes the case of the proposed building of the Traveston dam on the Mary River in Australia to examine the ways postcolonial power relations are played out in city/regional relationships to further the interests of the city. Postcolonialism is concerned with unravelling multiple histories of colonialism, and identifying the reproduction, contestation, ambivalence and transformation of modes of domination and subordination in colonial relations. Political contingencies and contestations by residents, farmers, traditional Indigenous owners and environmentalists seeking to protect endangered species are examined to highlight the dominance of Western anthropocentric, technocentric, and eurocentric epistemologies in political, ecological, environmental, biotheical debates.

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Title: The Conquest of the Peri-Urban: Sustainability and Postcolonialism
Authors: Julie M Matthews (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Timothy F Smith (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health and Education
Robert Mangoyana (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health and Education
Publication details: International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, Vol.5(4), pp.125-134
Publisher: Common Ground Publishing
Date published: 2009
DOI: 10.18848/1832-2077/CGP/v05i04/54658
ISSN: 1832-2077
Copyright note: Copyright © 2009 Common Ground, Julie Matthews, Tim Smith and Robert Mangoyana. Published version of this paper reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher. Please contact publisher for permission to reproduce.
Organisation Unit: School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449874902621
Output Type: Journal article

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