10. CARTOGRAPHY, PROPERTY AND THE AESTHETICS OF PLACE:

Abstract

New and converging technologies in administration and mapping have enabled property rights to become disconnected from the facts of occupation and possession of land. By the time native title was recognised in the Mabo decision (1992) the primary representation of land tenure was in digital cadastres¹ created and controlled by Federal and State bureaucracies. Native title was immediately cast as a spatial question. The location of native title rights was determined within the confines of a map of existing legal interests in the land. In this paper, I consider how the spatial orientation of property has affected the nature and expression of native title rights in Australia.

Citation

Reilly, A. (2004), "10. CARTOGRAPHY, PROPERTY AND THE AESTHETICS OF PLACE: ", Kenyon, A. and Rush, P. (Ed.) Aesthetics of Law and Culture: Texts, Images, Screens (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 34), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 221-239. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1059-4337(04)34010-X