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Contested Governance: Culture, Power and Institutions in Indigenous Australia See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242646417 Contested Governance: Culture, Power and Institutions in Indigenous Australia Article · January 2008 CITATIONS READS 29 50 3 authors, including: Janet Hunt Diane Smith Australian National University Australian National University 2 PUBLICATIONS 35 CITATIONS 38 PUBLICATIONS 327 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE All content following this page was uploaded by Diane Smith on 31 July 2015. The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. CONTESTED GOVERNANCE Culture, power and institutions in Indigenous Australia Janet Hunt, Diane Smith, Stephanie Garling and Will Sanders (Editors) THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY E PRESS Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research College of Arts and Social Sciences The Australian National University, Canberra Research Monograph No. 29 2008 Published by ANU E Press The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Email: [email protected] This title is also available online at: http://epress.anu.edu.au/c29_citation.html National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Title: Contested governance : culture, power and institutions in indigenous Australia / editors: Janet Hunt ... [et al.]. ISBN: 9781921536045 (pbk.) 9781921536052 (pdf) Series: Research monograph (Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research) ; no. 29. Subjects: Aboriginal Australians--Politics and government. Aboriginal Australians--Economic conditions. Aboriginal Australians--Social conditions. Community development--Australia. Other Authors/Contributors: Hunt, Janet. Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research. Dewey Number: 320.0899915 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Cover design by ANU E Press. Printed by University Printing Services, ANU This edition © 2008 ANU E Press Contents List of Figures v List of Tables vii Notes on contributors ix Abbreviations and acronyms xiii Foreword xvii Mick Dodson Acknowledgements xxi 1. Understanding Indigenous Australian governance—research, theory 1 and representations Diane Smith and Janet Hunt Part 1. The governance environment 2. Between a rock and a hard place: self-determination, mainstreaming 27 and Indigenous community governance Janet Hunt 3. Constraints on researchers acting as change agents 55 Sarah Holcombe Part 2. Culture, power and the intercultural 4. Cultures of governance and the governance of culture: transforming 75 and containing Indigenous institutions in West Arnhem Land Diane Smith 5. Whose governance, for whose good? The Laynhapuy Homelands 113 Association and the neo-assimilationist turn in Indigenous policy Frances Morphy 6. Regenerating governance on Kaanju homelands 153 Benjamin Richard Smith Part 3. Institutions of Indigenous governance 7. Different governance for difference: the Bawinanga Aboriginal 177 Corporation Jon Altman 8. The business of governing: building institutional capital in an 205 urban enterprise Diane Smith iii 9. Indigenous leaders and leadership: agents of networked 233 governance Bill Ivory Part 4. Contesting cultural geographies of governance 10. Noongar Nation 265 Manuhuia Barcham 11. Regionalism that respects localism: the Anmatjere Community 283 Government Council and beyond Will Sanders Part 5. Rebuilding governance 12. Incorporating cattle: governance and an Aboriginal pastoral 313 enterprise Christina Lange 13. Mapping expectations around a ‘governance review’ exercise of a 331 West Kimberley organisation Kathryn Thorburn Key ICGP Publications 351 iv Contested Governance List of Figures 1.1 The ICGP case study sites included in this volume 8 4.1 The proposed region for the West Central Arnhem 87 Regional Authority, under the BSRSF policy 4.2 Proposed representative structure for the West 88 Central Arnhem Regional Authority 4.3 The required region for the West Arnhem Shire 90 under the new local government policy 4.4 The representative structure for the West Arnhem 98 Shire under the new local government policy 4.5 The proposed logo of the West Arnhem Shire 99 Transition Committee and the former regional authority 5.1 The Yolngu region 115 5.2 The Laynhapuy Homelands Association 116 homelands and the Laynhapuy Indigenous Protected Area 5.3 Kin relations in the Yolngu marriage bestowal 124 system 5.4 The märi±gutharra and ngändi±waku 125 relationships between clans, from the perspective of a Madarrpa sibling pair 5.5 The hub and spokes model 131 5.6 The intercultural space from the state's point of 137 view 5.7 The intercultural space from the Yolngu point of 139 view 6.1 Central Cape York Peninsula outstations map 160 6.2 Kinship relations of the Wenlock outstation `mob' 164 7.1 Maningrida regional map 180 7.2 BAC organisational structure and business units 187 8.1 The `Yarnteen family' of organisations 220 9.1 Port Keats/Wadeye regional map showing 239 localities and pastoral stations mentioned in the text 9.2 Murrinh-patha age categories 240 10.1 Six Noongar claims 272 10.2 SWALSC wards 276 11.1 Area and wards of the Anmatjere Community 285 Government Council 11.2 Ti Tree town and Creek Camp 290 v 11.3 Graphic of ACGC quorum rules 297 11.4 Depiction of regional/local relationships in 298 Anmatjere 11.5 Proposed shires and municipalities in the 301 Northern Territory from July 2008 12.1 Location of the local government Shire of Wiluna 315 and the township of Wiluna, WA 13.1 West Kimberley region showing Kurungal Inc's 333 communities 13.2 Structure of Kurungal Inc 334 vi Contested Governance List of Tables 9.1 Paradigms of Indigenous leadership 236 11.1 ACGC election 2004, enrolments by ward 292 vii Notes on contributors Jon Altman Jon Altman is Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at The Australian National University, Canberra. He has a disciplinary background in economics and anthropology. Professor Altman has undertaken research in the Maningrida region and with the Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation since 1979 on a diversity of issues, including the customary economy, resource management, land rights and the outstations movement, the arts industry, and the Community Development Employment Projects scheme. His current research focuses on the Indigenous hybrid economy in the tropical savanna, and the potential of equitable payment for environmental services delivered to provide viable livelihood options for Indigenous people. Manuhuia Barcham Manuhuia Barcham is the former Director of the Centre for Indigenous Governance and Development at Massey University, New Zealand, and is now a Director of Synexe, a private sector research and consulting firm. He has field experience in eastern Indonesia, Melanesia, Australasia, eastern Polynesia and North America. A key practical goal of his work is to explore how indigenous and introduced governance structures and processes can come together constructively so as to maximise their developmental utility for local communities. Sarah Holcombe Sarah Holcombe is a social anthropologist and Research Fellow at the National Centre for Indigenous Studies at The Australian National University. Prior to this she was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) on two Australian Research Council projects: `Indigenous community organisations and miners: partnering sustainable regional development?' and the `Indigenous Community Governance Project'. The research in the latter project was also supported by the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) as part of the `Sustainable Settlements' research program. In her later period at CAEPR Dr Holcombe also held the position of Social Science Coordinator for the Desert Knowledge CRC. She has a balance of applied and academic anthropology, having worked earlier for the Central and Northern Land Councils as a regional staff anthropologist. Janet Hunt Janet Hunt is a Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at The Australian National University where she manages the Indigenous ix Community Governance Project. She has worked for many years in international development with a particular focus on non-government organisations (NGOs), gender and development, and the Pacific and South East Asia regions. She was Executive Director of the Australian Council for Overseas Aid, the peak body of international development NGOs, from 1995±2000. Since 1999 she has worked with a range of local and international NGOs in East Timor. She has published about education, aid and development, East Timor, and Indigenous governance; and has lectured in international and community development at RMIT and Deakin universities. Her most recent book, co-authored with four others, is International Development: Issues and Challenges, published by Palgrave in 2008. Bill Ivory Bill Ivory is a PhD scholar with Charles Darwin University/Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin, Northern Territory (NT). He has a background in anthropology and community development. Bill has worked in Indigenous affairs since 1972 with the NT and Commonwealth Governments. He graduated from the Australian School of Pacific Administration in 1972, and since then has been involved primarily as a field operative with projects in remote community contexts. Bill has a
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