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Native Title Research Unit
Dr. Jessica Weir
Research Fellow
NATIVE TITLE
Contact deatils
GPO Box 553, AIATSIS, Canberra ACT 2601
Telephone: +61 2 6246 1162
Facsimile: +61 2 6249 7714
Email: jess.weir[@]aiatsis.gov.au
Dr Jessica Weir is a Research Fellow in the Native Title Research Unit. Jessica has worked in native title research for over ten years, and is a human geographer whose research focuses on ecological and social issues in Australia.
Jessica has a PhD from the Fenner School of Environment and Society at The Australian National University. Her thesis has been published as a book by Aboriginal Studies Press as ‘Murray River Country: an Ecological Dialogue with Traditional Owners’. Jessica also has a Masters in Environmental Management and Development Studies, and has worked in the non-government sector with local communities on environment and livelihood issues in Bangladesh and Thailand.
Dr Jess Weir: Image courtesy of Clive Hilliker
Current Research Focus
Jessica’s research focus is the management of country, especially native title lands. Jessica is a lead researcher in the NTRU project on Prescribed Bodies Corporate (PBC). Jessica has undertaken case study research with Karajarri native title holders in the West Kimberley, who are required to establish a corporation to hold and manage their native title lands. This project examines the current operating context of PBCs, the skills and aspirations of PBC members, and the challenges they face in meeting their responsibilities and expectations.
Jessica's research within the NTRU project Native Title and Ecology is focused on broadening disciplinary engagement with native title, and to extend our understandings of native title within the context of ecological relationships, ecological change, and ecological destruction.
Jessica's research on the NTRU project Native Title and Freshwater seeks to investigate native title issues related to the rights and interests, privatisation and management of freshwater.
Recent Selected Publications2009
- Weir, J and S Muller. Forthcoming. Caring for Country is not Natural Resource Management.
- Strelein, L. and J. Weir. 2009. ‘Conservation and Human Rights in the Context of Native Title in Australia’, book chapter in Campese, J, Sunderland, T, Greiber, T and G Oviedo (eds) Exploring Issues and Opportunities in Rights Based Approaches to Conservation, CIFOR, IUCN and CEESP, Bogor, Indonesia.
- Weir, J 2009, Murray River Country: An Ecological Dialogue with Traditional Owners, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, pp.i-xvi, 1-175.
- Weir, J. 2009 'Our understandings of water and how they translate into our decision making
 ’, workshop paper, ACT Planning and Land Authority workshop Planning for our Future – Securing Canberra’s Water, pp.1-7.
- Weir, J. 2009 'The Gunditjmara Land Justice Story' (
 2.61 Mb), Research Monograph 1/2009, Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.
- Weir, J. 2008 'Connectivity' ( 127 Kb), Australian Humanities Review, 45, pp.153-164
- Weir J and S Ross 2007 “Beyond Native Title: Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations”, in F Morphy and B R Smith (eds), The Social Effects of Native Title: Recognition, Translation, Coexistence, CAEPR Research Monograph No. 27, ANU E-Press.
- Weir J. 2007 ‘Native title and Governance: the emerging corporate sector prescribed for native title holders’ ( 191 Kb), Land, Rights, Laws: Issues of Native Title, 3(9):1-16. Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
- Weir J. 2007 “The traditional owner experience along the Murray River”, in E Potter, S Mackenzie, A Mackinnon, and J Mackay (eds), Fresh Water: New Perspectives on Water in Australia, Melbourne University Press.
- Morgan M, Strelein L and J Weir. 2006 "Authority, knowledge and values: Indigenous Nations engagement in the management of natural resources in the Murray-Darling Basin", in M Langton, O Mazel, L Palmer, K Shain and M Tehan (eds) Settling with Indigenous peoples, The Federation Press, Sydney.
- Morgan M, Strelein L and J Weir. 2004. Indigenous Rights to Water in the Murray Darling Basin: In support of the Indigenous final report to the Living Murray Initiative ( 1.25 Mb), Research Discussion Paper # 14, Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.
- Strelein L, Dodson M and J Weir. 2001. Understanding Non-discrimination: Native Title Law and Policy in a Human Rights Context, Balayi: Culture, Law and Colonialism, Vol 3, pp 113-48.
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