The Economics of Culture and Power
Convenor: Dr Gaynor Macdonald, University of Sydney
Panel description: The economy as well as the state have been conspicuously missing from Australian Aboriginal anthropology over many years, a situation now being turned around as we recognise the crises confronting communities in every part of the nation. This is an important moment to address paradigms of power and economy that can inform analyses of Aboriginal peoples' contemporary experiences. This session calls for papers which address not only the situations being confronted in the intersections of local and state economies, but also the crafting of anthropologies of power and economy that can articulate with grounded understandings of contemporary social and cultural experience. The session aims to place ‘economy’ (at macro and micro levels) firmly back into anthropological understandings of cultural practice – in the practices of those with and without power or economic autonomy.
Abstracts
Gaynor Macdonald, University of Sydney - Economy, Culture and the Imperatives of Contemporary Anthropology
Kado Muir, Aboriginal Heritage Consultants P/L - A State of Over Excitement: (un)Sustainable Development in Remote Regions of Western Australia
Jackie Gould, Australian National University - The Larrakia in Darwin’s Economic Landscape
Ben Killingsworth, University of Melbourne - The Reproduction of ‘Irrationality’
Anthony Redmond, Australian National University - Unreal Cultures and Real Economies in Aboriginal Australia: An Enduring Polarity
Marianne Hoyd, University of Sydney - Economics and Indigeneity: Relational Autonomy and the Lake Cowal Gold Mine Project
Ghislaine van Maanen, University of Western Australia - It is Commonly Said that the Economy Rules the World…
Jeremy Beckett, University of Sydney - The Moral Economy of Welfare in Torres Strait
