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This chapter moves from how we educate about enclosures in England and more broadly across the European continent to examining how we teach about the more recent colonial period has shaped colonial legal structures that justified enclosure of the lands and waterways of colonized peoples. Despite the allodial principle being ignored and rendered almost meaningless in the latter period of English colonization of lands such as Australia, the conceptual potential of the allodial principle provides an important opportunity for rethinking land and water. This chapter will focus on the interdependent and relational space where English, and then Australian, property law meets Indigenous customary law enabling educators to provide pedagogical leadership into a transitional postcoloniality under the conditions of globalization.
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Ma Rhea, Z. (2018). Teaching About Where Property Law Meets Customary Law. In: Land and Water Education and the Allodial Principle. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7600-8_4
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