[Aqualist] AAA 2009 Call for papers - Engaged archaeology, consultancies and management planning

[Mirani Litster]

Hi all!

We would like to invite interested people to submit an abstract for the 
session
'Engaged archaeology, consultancies and management planning: research
directions' for this year's Australian Archaeological Association 
conference to
be held in Adelaide, December 11th-14th, 2009. A copy of the abstract is
included below.

If you would like to present a paper, please forward a 150 word abstract to
Kelly Wiltshire (kelly.wiltshire at flinders.edu.au) by the end of October.

Kindest regards,
Steve Hemming, Chris Wilson and Kelly Wiltshire


SESSION ABSTACT

Engaged archaeology, consultancies and management planning: research 
directions

The increasing trend in Indigenous archaeology towards heritage 
consultancies
and small-scale management planning is having an impact on resources and
opportunities for long-term research projects. Indigenous nations such 
as the
Ngarrindjeri in South Australia are important cont ributors to new 
practices and
directions in this contemporary Indigenous heritage management landscape.
Place-based and localised interests are of course essential to Indigenous
pasts, presents and futures. This means that long-term archaeological and
cultural heritage research is an important part Indigenous programs aimed at
sustainable community development and culturally appropriate management of
country. In this context new partnerships and relationships are forming 
between
Indigenous nations and disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology and
environmental sciences. What kinds of impacts are these engagements 
having on
archaeological research methodologies and research questions? What kinds of
partnerships are forming between Indigenous nations, universities, business,
heritage consultants and governments in this new context? Indigenous nations
have recognised the need to initiate and direct research programs and to
produce rese arch that shapes government policy, race relations and 
community
development. How are Indigenous agendas based on a complex combination of
resistance, transformation and community development shaping the 
research and
teaching programs of disciplines such as archaeology? We would like to 
discuss
these issues using examples from the experiences of the Ngarrindjeri, other
Indigenous nations and archaeologists and cultural heritage researchers.