Finding common ground? Spaces of dialogue and the negotiation of Indigenous interests in environmental campaigns in Australia

摘要: Critiquing the usefulness of cosmopolitanism this paper argues that we need a more nuanced and subtle understanding how commonalities are found, created maintained across difference. This uses two juxtapositions perspective (around place environment) to explore such boundaries difference can be negotiated. It an examination ways in which environmental groups Australia have sought negotiate Indigenous interests through creating spaces dialogue changing working practices. is based on 30 interviews with both non-Indigenous activists case regions; Cape York (Queensland) Barmah-Millewa (Victoria/New South Wales). Four issues were identified proved particularly contentious negotiations build collaborative campaigns: language; power ownership; scale timeframes; economics. There examples successes ongoing problematic practices these tensions. However there also growing mutual ownership issues. Moving beyond colonial paternal sense responsibility, dynamic engaged mutuality concern for processes outcomes has resulted gradual, small, progressive steps forward Indigenous/non-Indigenous campaigning.