Being/Nothing: Native title and fantasy fulfilment

Biber, K

Being/Nothing: Native title and fantasy fulfilment

Biber, K

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Publisher:: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Indigenous Law Journal, 2004, 3 (1), pp. 1 - 17
Issue Date:: 2004-01

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dc.contributor.author	Biber, K https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2189-3157	en_US
dc.date.issued	2004-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Indigenous Law Journal, 2004, 3 (1), pp. 1 - 17	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1703-4566	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/956
dc.description.abstract	This paper proceeds from the idea that the nation is a fantasy, an imaginary zone through which identity, belonging and control are mediated. I explore the consequences of imagining the nation in this way by reading the formative Australian cases through which Native title jurisprudence developed in this country. Those cases - Mabo, Wik and Yorta Yorta - and the public discourses surrounding them reveal the competing national fantasies at stake in disputes over property, recognition and co-existence. Using the theoretical writing of psychoanalytic scholars Slavoj iek and Julia Kristeva, and the critique of nationalist practices from the work of Benedict Anderson and Ghassan Hage, I interrogate what it means to possess the nation.	en_US
dc.publisher	Wilfrid Laurier University Press	en_US
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dc.title	Being/Nothing: Native title and fantasy fulfilment	en_US
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Abstract:

This paper proceeds from the idea that the nation is a fantasy, an imaginary zone through which identity, belonging and control are mediated. I explore the consequences of imagining the nation in this way by reading the formative Australian cases through which Native title jurisprudence developed in this country. Those cases - Mabo, Wik and Yorta Yorta - and the public discourses surrounding them reveal the competing national fantasies at stake in disputes over property, recognition and co-existence. Using the theoretical writing of psychoanalytic scholars Slavoj iek and Julia Kristeva, and the critique of nationalist practices from the work of Benedict Anderson and Ghassan Hage, I interrogate what it means to possess the nation.

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