Cultural conflicts and mediation : framework analyses of resource development and conservation on the Indigenous lands and waters, Commonwealth ofAustralia

这项研究采用语料库建设的方法，以了解目前正在进行的冲突、纠纷、诉讼以及与土著群体在澳大利亚境内和周围地区的土地和水域中提出的土著所有权主张和管理权/使用权/咨询权相关的调解/谈判做法的各种案例。关于这些专题的描述性和分析性写作已被广泛收集和分析。数据语料库主要包括1)大众媒体报道和评论；2)行政新闻稿，如国家土著产权法庭新闻稿和政府声明；3)土著组织和个人发表的正式声明以及不太正式的评论；以及4)从政治、人类学或法律角度发表的专家评论。在较小程度上，参考了法院裁决文本。还查阅了人类学、社会学、政治学、历史学和人口学的文章，尽管这些文章没有纳入数据库语料库。语料库反映了1996年底至2008年期间观察到的具体案件及其背景趋势。所获得的材料已被处理进一个28.2兆字节的FileMakerPro数据库，该数据库包含2104条记录，并带有若干关键字，用于搜索和分析。

Corpus building approach has been adopted in this study in order to comprehend the currently ongoing process of conflicts, disputes, litigations, as well as varied cases of mediation/negotiation practices concerning the native title claims and related claims to management/access/consultation rights made by the indigenous groups in lands and waters in and around Australia. Descriptive and analytical writing on these topics have been extensively collected and analyzed.The data corpus maillly consists of 1)mass media reports and commentaries; 2) administrative releases, such as National Native Title Tribunal media releases and Government statements; 3)formal statements as well as less formal commentaries made by indigenous organizations and individuals ; and 4)expert commentaries from political, anthropological or legal points of view. To a lesser extent, court ruling texts have been referred to. Anthropological, sociological, political, historical and demographic articles have also been consulted although these are not incorporated into the database corpus. The corpus reflects specific cases and their background tendencies observed in the period from late 1996 to 2008.Obtained materials have been processed into a 28.2 megabyte FileMakerPro database, which contains 2,104 records bestowed with a number of keywords for searching and analyzing purposes.