Planning in Indigenous Australia

Sue Jackson is Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. She is a cultural geographer with expertise in the social dimensions of natural resource management in Australia, particularly Indigenous community-based conservation initiatives, knowledge practices and institutions. In 2014 Sue was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship.Libby Porter is Associate Professor and Vice Chancellor’s Principal Research Fellow at RMIT University, Australia. Her work addresses the politics of dispossession and displacement in planning and urban theory. Libby is Assistant Editor of the journal Planning Theory and Practice and co-founder of Planners Network UK. Her major publications include Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning (2010) and Planning for Coexistence? Recognizing Indigenous rights through land-use planning in Canada and Australia (2016, with Janice Barry).Louise C. Johnson is Professor of Australian Studies at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. A human geographer, she was awarded the Institute of Australian Geographers Australia International Medal in 2012 for her contributions to geography. Louise's major publications include Suburban Dreaming: An interdisciplinary approach to Australian cities (1994), Placebound: Australian feminist geographies (2000) and Cultural Capitals: Revaluing the arts and remaking urban spaces (2009).

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• List of Figures List of TablesAcknowledgementsPlanning in Indigenous Australia: An IntroductionSue Jackson, Louise C. Johnson and Libby PorterPart I: Planning and Indigenous Peoples1 Framing Relations Between Planning and Indigenous Peoples Libby Porter2 Australian Planning Texts and Indigenous AbsenceLouise C. JohnsonPart II: Imperial Foundations3 Dispossession and Terra Nullius: Planning’s Formative TerrainLibby Porter4 The Colonial Technologies and Practices of Australian PlanningSue Jackson5 Planning Sydney: Australia’s First CityLouise C. Johnson6 Planning MelbourneLouise C. Johnson7 Darwin: A Planner’s DreamSue JacksonPart III: Towards Postcolonial Futures8 Land Rights: A Postcolonial Revolution in Land TitleSue Jackson9 Planning in the Native Title Era Sue Jackson10 Heritage ManagementLibby Porter11 Indigenous Planning: Emerging PossibilitiesLibby Porter, Sue Jackson and Louise C. Johnson12 Towards a New Planning History and PracticeSue Jackson, Louise C. Johnson and Libby PorterIndex