ABSTRACT

Everyday practices in the contact zone continuously unsettle and resettle the challenging nature of Indigenous claims on planning. So far, our exploration of these negotiations and contestations has focused on how Indigenous peoples ‘speak back’ to the systems of state-based planning, using knowledge systems and political processes that will already be familiar to its practitioners. While we have sought to privilege those actions and claims, this is not to suggest that state-based planners did not engage in their own ‘arts of the contact zone’. In many of our cases, planners, land managers, staff and managers in government were able to use their professional knowledge and experience to create spaces and possibilities for coexistence. This chapter seeks to bring these stories to the fore.