Mapping the frontiers of private property in New South Wales, Australia

Rogers, D; Leach, A; Ludewig, J; Thorpe, A; Troy, L

Mapping the frontiers of private property in New South Wales, Australia

Rogers, D Leach, A Ludewig, J

Thorpe, A Troy, L

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Geographical Research, 2024
Issue Date:: 2024

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dc.contributor.author	Rogers, D
dc.contributor.author	Leach, A
dc.contributor.author	Ludewig, J https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7592-1598
dc.contributor.author	Thorpe, A
dc.contributor.author	Troy, L
dc.date.accessioned	2024-08-28T06:07:31Z
dc.date.available	2024-08-28T06:07:31Z
dc.date.issued	2024
dc.identifier.citation	Geographical Research, 2024
dc.identifier.issn	1745-5863
dc.identifier.issn	1745-5871
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/180577
dc.description.abstract	This article addresses the process and patterns by which private property has been applied on the Australian continent. Alongside both lease-holdings that are limited by term or perpetual and squatting practices, identifying and documenting private property in both individual cases and in aggregate over a large geography offers a compelling approximation of the appearance and spread of British–Australian settlement. Plots and patterns of private land ownership can be read in relation to other forms of land use and tenure each subject to specific historical legal instruments and definitions. We explore how, in particular, the first-generation alienation of private property might be constructed, represented, and theorised using a critical approach to GIS tools and practices. What technical considerations are required to identify the extent of a site and map its transfer into private hands? How far can the process of mapping the initial alienation of parcels of Crown land over time expose legacies of colonial practices in present-day methods and serve as a testbed to generate other layers that capture, for instance, patterns of informal privatisation or interact with other phenomena—most notably that of frontier violence—that likewise occur on land, in time? Such work can be located among those wrestling with problems of mapping colonial land occupation with technologies that share a heritage with the surveying tools that allowed that same acquisition and can enhance a critical approach to GIS in relation to appropriation and dispossession of Aboriginal land.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	WILEY
dc.relation.ispartof	Geographical Research
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1111/1745-5871.12581
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject.classification	Geography
dc.title	Mapping the frontiers of private property in New South Wales, Australia
dc.type	Journal Article
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Architecture
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dc.date.updated	2024-08-28T06:07:30Z
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Abstract:

This article addresses the process and patterns by which private property has been applied on the Australian continent. Alongside both lease-holdings that are limited by term or perpetual and squatting practices, identifying and documenting private property in both individual cases and in aggregate over a large geography offers a compelling approximation of the appearance and spread of British–Australian settlement. Plots and patterns of private land ownership can be read in relation to other forms of land use and tenure each subject to specific historical legal instruments and definitions. We explore how, in particular, the first-generation alienation of private property might be constructed, represented, and theorised using a critical approach to GIS tools and practices. What technical considerations are required to identify the extent of a site and map its transfer into private hands? How far can the process of mapping the initial alienation of parcels of Crown land over time expose legacies of colonial practices in present-day methods and serve as a testbed to generate other layers that capture, for instance, patterns of informal privatisation or interact with other phenomena—most notably that of frontier violence—that likewise occur on land, in time? Such work can be located among those wrestling with problems of mapping colonial land occupation with technologies that share a heritage with the surveying tools that allowed that same acquisition and can enhance a critical approach to GIS in relation to appropriation and dispossession of Aboriginal land.

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