[Anthropgrad] Anthropology seminar, Wednesday 29th October

[Melinda Hinkson]

Anthropology Seminar, 9.30 am Wednesday 29 October, Coombs Seminar Room A

Power, culture and economy: Can mining provide development for Indigenous
Australians?
 
Jon Altman, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU
 
Despite the burgeoning number of international charters, state
constitutions, and national laws across the world that assert and protect
the rights of indigenous peoples, the majority of indigenous peoples find
themselves increasingly marginalized.
 
This seminar addresses this issue by presenting research that analyzes
conflicts between states, multinational corporations and local indigenous
communities that have erupted in the context of two mega development
projects in north Australia. This research is the outcome of both a
completed ARC Linkage project (with Rio Tinto as an industry partner) as
well as a larger UNRISD collaborative project that explores these dynamics
in eight different countries. Offering a theoretical framing that integrates
the three concepts of inter-culturality, economic hybridity and repressive
authenticity and two case studies from Ranger and Century mines the seminar
explores how the dynamics between state, corporate, and indigenous actors
might provide insights into the workings of power that sustain or undermine
such a paradox. The seminar asks how might the ways in which these forces
collide and/or collude, subvert and/or support, confront and/or collaborate
contribute toward or mitigate such paradoxical conditions?
 
All welcome.
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Melinda Hinkson
School of Archaeology & Anthropology
A.D. Hope Building
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200

T: +61 2 6125 8246
F: +61 2 6125 2711
W: http://arts.anu.edu.au/AandA/

Information about the Master of Visual Culture Research
is available at: http://rsh.anu.edu.au/vcr.php