[Anthropgrad] CAEPR seminar 21 May, David Martin

[Katarina Ferro]

CAEPR Seminar, 21 May 2008; 12.30-2pm
AD Hope, Humanities Conference Room

Challenges for sustainable governance in the development and 
implementation of comprehensive mining agreements

---David Martin (Visiting Fellow, CAEPR)

*Abstract:* Agreement making, especially through Indigenous Land Use 
Agreements, is an increasingly important aspect of native title 
practice. Major mining agreements in particular are typically highly 
complex legally-driven documents which focus on meeting or reconciling 
the various parties' perceived aspirations and interests within a risk 
management framework. However, comparatively little attention is given 
to agreements' necessarily intercultural character, and their roles in 
social and cultural as well as economic transformation. This seminar 
will focus on three key arenas which, it is argued, are crucial in both 
the design and implementation of sustainable agreements. Firstly, it 
argues that inadequate attention is paid to the governance of agreements 
as systems. Secondly, it outlines key implications of agreements being 
'intercultural' institutions. Lastly, it proposes that the objective 
reality of ongoing Aboriginal socio-cultural transformation must be 
factored into both the design and implementation phases of agreements.
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