Jon Altman Research Collection Part a MS 4721 Finding Aid Prepared by T Hansson, S Berry, C Oxley, C Biggs and C Zdanowicz
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Jon Altman research collection Part A MS 4721 Finding aid prepared by T Hansson, S Berry, C Oxley, C Biggs and C Zdanowicz This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit August 07, 2017 Describing Archives: A Content Standard Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Library April 2015 1 Lawson Crescent Acton Peninsula Acton Canberra, ACT, 2600 +61 2 6246 1111 [email protected] Jon Altman research collection Part A MS 4721 Table of Contents Summary Information ................................................................................................................................. 4 Biographical note...........................................................................................................................................5 Scope and Contents note............................................................................................................................... 8 Arrangement note...........................................................................................................................................8 Administrative Information .........................................................................................................................8 Related Materials ...................................................................................................................................... 10 Controlled Access Headings........................................................................................................................12 Spelling.........................................................................................................................................................13 Collection Inventory.................................................................................................................................... 15 Series 1 Research material [DATES: 1977-1990]................................................................................15 Series 2 Research Material [DATES: 1990-2010]............................................................................. 127 Series 3 CAEPR - Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research................................................302 Series 4 Miscellaneous........................................................................................................................ 328 Series 5 Publications............................................................................................................................355 Series 6 Reports, Studies and Theses..................................................................................................360 Series 7 Correspondence..................................................................................................................... 362 Series 8 Estrays....................................................................................................................................365 Series 9 Media..................................................................................................................................... 376 Series 10 Acts and Hansard................................................................................................................ 377 Series 11 JC Altman filing lists.......................................................................................................... 381 Series 12 Newly acquired material..................................................................................................... 381 Series 13 Northern Territory Emergency Response............................................................................382 Series 14 Research material 2005-2013..............................................................................................383 Series 15 Field Notebooks 1977-2010................................................................................................ 384 - Page 2 - Jon Altman research collection Part A MS 4721 Series 16 Field Diaries........................................................................................................................ 384 - Page 3 - Jon Altman research collection Part A MS 4721 Summary Information Repository Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Library Creator Altman, Jon C. Title Jon Altman research collection Part A Date [bulk] Bulk, 1977-2010 Date [inclusive] 1977-2014 Extent 44.0 Linear metres 249 archival boxes + 1 folio box + 44 folders in Manuscript Plan Cabinet. Language English Preferred Citation note Items from this collection should be cited as: [Title or description of manuscript item], Jon Altman research collection, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, MS 4721, Series [no.], Subseries [no.], Folder or Item [no.] - Page 4 - Jon Altman research collection Part A MS 4721 Biographical note Jon Altman was born in Haifa, Israel on 8 September 1954. Jon has dual Australian and New Zealand nationality. His partner since 1998 is Melinda Hinkson and he has two children, Tessa b. 1985 and Oskar b. 2007. Jon Altman was an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Auckland, New Zealand for five years where he completed BA and MA (Hons) degrees. After a period of two years at the Department of Economics, University of Melbourne, he completed a PhD in Anthropology at the Australian National University, holding an Australian Postgraduate Award. For an eight year post-doctoral phase he held a series of research-only positions in the Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific Studies, before establishing CAEPR in 1990. Professor Altman undertook fieldwork for his doctorate in the Maningrida region, Western Arnhem Land in 1979–81 residing with Kuninjku people at Mumeka outstation on the Mann River and collaborating on research about local livelihood options. This research was published in the book Hunter-Gatherers Today: an Aboriginal Economy in North Australia (Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1987). Professor Altman's research focuses on the anthropology of development and includes: Sustainable economic development and associated policy issues for Indigenous Australia; the hybrid economy framework; the economic articulations of Indigenous people with the Australian and global economies (especially in mining, tourism, the arts and emerging industries like carbon abatement); the Indigenous customary economy and its articulations with the market; land rights, native title and Indigenous land management; and theoretical issues in the anthropology of development. Professor Altman has regularly undertaken collaborative research with the Kuninjku [Kunwinjku] people on customary economy and wildlife harvesting, the arts, resource management, and on the transformations in the unusual regional hybrid economy made up of customary, state and market sectors. He has also undertaken field research in north Queensland, the Torres Strait, the Kimberley and Central Australia. In 1985 Jon Altman highlighted to the Miller Review of Aboriginal Employment and Training Programs, the urgent need to enhance Australias capacity to undertake economic research about Indigenous people. CAEPR (Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research) was established in 1990 at the Australian National University. Jon was appointed as Director of CAEPR in 1990. Over 20 years as Director, Jon’s role changed to include more staff and research management, university administration and outreach. Jon stepped down as Director in 2010 so he could devote more time to research and graduate training. CAEPR was integrated into the Research School of Social Sciences in the College of Arts and Social Sciences. He is currently (2015) a Research Professor at CAEPR dedicating his time to research on economic hybridity and Indigenous development in regional and remote Australia; and increasingly focusing on building on existing and new international scholarly links in critical social theory of development. Professor Altman has been involved in a number of ARC (Australian Research Council) projects including his own on 'Hybrid Economic Futures for Remote Indigenous Australia' and as a Chief - Page 5 - Jon Altman research collection Part A MS 4721 Investigator on an ARC Linkage project 'More than a Roof Overhead: Meeting the Need for a Sustainable Housing System in Remote Indigenous Communities', based at RMIT University. Other research he has undertaken focused on Indigenous interests in fresh water, as an adviser to the Indigenous Water Policy Group and the Northern Australia Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance (NAILSMA). A major project he directed, largely sponsored by the Sidney Myer Trust, is the 'People On Country, Healthy Landscapes, and Indigenous Economic Futures' project that began in November 2007. Jon was a consultant to the Australia Council on the Aboriginal Visual Arts industry and was Chairman of the Review in 1989. He continued to do research and write papers and submissions on the Indigenous Arts and Crafts sector, economic issues relating to Indigenous Arts and Crafts, and was also involved in the Indigenous Arts Strategy of the Northern Territory, writing 'An Indigenous Arts strategy for the Northern territory : recommended framework', in 2003. In 1990, Professor Altman also participated in evaluation and reviews of the CDEP (Community Development Employment Program) scheme and contributed to the CDEP Conference in 2000. Jon maintains a research and policy advisory network with