Foreword / Mick Dodson -- Understanding Indigenous Australian governance--research, theory and representations / Diane Smith and Janet Hunt -- Part 1. The governance environment. Between a rock and a hard place: self-determination, mainstreaming and Indigenous community governance / Janet Hunt -- Constraints on researchers acting as change agents / Sarah Holcombe -- Part 2. Culture, power and the intercultural. Cultures of governance and the governance of culture: transforming and containing Indigenous institutions in West Arnhem Land / Diane Smith -- Whose governance, for whose good? The Laynhapuy Homelands Association and the neo-assimilationist turn in Indigenous policy / Frances Morphy -- Regenerating governance on Kaanju homelands / Benjamin Richard Smith -- Part 3. Institutions of Indigenous governance. Different governance for difference: the Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation / Jon Altman -- The business of governing: building institutional capital in an urban enterprise / Diane Smith -- Indigenous leaders and leadership: agents of networked governance / Bill Ivory -- Part 4. Contesting cultural geographies of governance. Noongar Nation / Manuhuia Barcham -- Regionalism that respects localism: the Anmatjere Community Government Council and beyond / Will Sanders -- Part 5. Rebuilding governance. Incorporating cattle: governance and an Aboriginal pastoral enterprise / Christina Lange -- Mapping expectations around a 'governance review' exercise of a West Kimberley organisation / Kathryn Thorburn
Summary
"The research in this book aims to provide evidence and practical guidance for governments and Indigenous leaders about community governance in indigenous Australia, and contribute to enhancing existing success. This book documents many of the challenges, opportunities and issues facing those engaged in trying to achieve legitimate and effective governance on the ground. It considers the significant underlying problems that have to be resolved if indigenous social and economic development is to be achieved and sustained."--Information provided by publisher
