The Process of Policy Development and the Implementation of Development Policy
Convenor: Patrick Sullivan, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Panel description: The anthropology of development is concerned with both indigenous and non-indigenous actors as they create cultures of interdependency within a shared social field. The papers in this session explore aspects of Australian Aboriginal social and economic development policy produced in the complex interplay of bureaucracies and community sector organisations with diverse governance arrangements and political influences. They are both ethnographic and theoretical, critically addressing the generation of Aboriginal affairs policy, contradictions in its implementation, the production of cultures of development, and manifestations of inter-cultural alignments in Aboriginal development contexts.
Abstracts
Patrick Sullivan, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies - Policy Making as Morris Dance: Bureaucratic Cultures
Mark Moran, Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre and Centre for Appropriate Technology - Understanding the Effects of the Public Service System on Local Governance in Aboriginal Settlements in Desert Australia
Elizabeth Ganter, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University and Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre - Indigenous Senior Officials in the Northern Territory Government: How Compelled Are They by the Accounts of a Representative Bureaucracy?
