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My Country, Mine Country : Indigenous people, mining and development contestation in remote Australia (Volume 33.0)

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode ;2013 ANU E Press ;ISBN: 192214472X ;ISBN: 9781922144720 ;ISBN: 9781922144737 ;ISBN: 1922144738 ;EISBN: 9781922144737 ;EISBN: 1922144738 ;DOI: 10.26530/OAPEN_459939 ;OCLC: OCN: 1030815465 ;OCLC: 1030815465 ;OCLC: 861324701

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  • Title:
    My Country, Mine Country : Indigenous people, mining and development contestation in remote Australia (Volume 33.0)
  • Author: Scambary, Benedict
  • Subjects: Aboriginal Australians ; American ; Australia ; Book Industry Communication ; Company, commercial & competition law ; Economic aspects ; Energy & natural resources law ; Ethnic Studies ; indigenous studies ; JFSL9 Indigenous peoples ; Land tenure ; Law ; Laws of Specific jurisdictions ; Mines and mining ; mining ; Native American Studies ; Natural Resources ; Northern Territory ; Pilbara ; Social conditions ; Social groups ; Social Science ; Society & culture: general ; Society & social sciences ; Technology ; Waanyi
  • Description: Agreements between the mining industry and Indigenous people are not creating sustainable economic futures for Indigenous people, and this demands consideration of alternate forms of economic engagement in order to realise such ‘futures’. Within the context of three mining agreements in north Australia this study considers Indigenous livelihood aspirations and their intersection with sustainable development agendas. The three agreements are the Yandi Land Use Agreement in the Central Pilbara in Western Australia, the Ranger Uranium Mine Agreement in the Kakadu region of the Northern Territory, and the Gulf Communities Agreement in relation to the Century zinc mine in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland. Recent shifts in Indigenous policy in Australia seek to de-emphasise the cultural behaviour or imperatives of Indigenous people in undertaking economic action, in favour of a mainstream conventional approach to economic development. Concepts of ‘value’, ‘identity’, and ‘community’ are key elements in the tension between culture and economics that exists in the Indigenous policy environment. Whilst significant diversity exists within the Indigenous polity, Indigenous aspirations for the future typically emphasise a desire for alternate forms of economic engagement that combine elements of the mainstream economy with the maintenance and enhancement of Indigenous institutions and ‘livelihood’ activities. Such aspirations reflect ongoing and dynamic responses to modernity, and typically concern the interrelated issues of access to and management of ‘country’, the maintenance of Indigenous institutions associated with family and kin, access to resources such as cash and vehicles, the establishment of robust representative organisations, and are integrally linked to the derivation of both symbolic and economic value of livelihood pursuits.
  • Publisher: Canberra: ANU Press
  • Creation Date: 2013
  • Format: 292 pages
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 192214472X
    ISBN: 9781922144720
    ISBN: 9781922144737
    ISBN: 1922144738
    EISBN: 9781922144737
    EISBN: 1922144738
    DOI: 10.26530/OAPEN_459939
    OCLC: OCN: 1030815465
    OCLC: 1030815465
    OCLC: 861324701
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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    JSTOR eBooks: Open Access
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