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DEVELOPMENT
AND
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
3041ENV
Tutorial Readings Book
Trimester Two, 2017
Dr Monica Seini and Dr Leah Burns
3041ENV - Introduction to Tutorial Programme
Each student is required to read the set readings for each weekly tutorial. Several questions
are suggested for each topic, but these should be regarded only as a guide to the readings.
A maximum of 15 students have been allocated to each tutorial group. You are expected to
attend and do prior readings for all sessions. You will be allocated a participation mark for
tutorial attendance and participation worth 10% of your total mark for this subject.
For the Oral Presentation each student will be expected to present a synthesis/summary of
the readings and materials covered in lectures for that week (approximately 15 – 20 mins).
They will also be required to facilitate a whole of group discussion around the topic for the
remainder of the tutorial. Oral presentations such as these assist in the development of your
communication skills, which are highly valued by employers. The topic for the oral
presentation will be from the tutorial readings and topics will be allocated during the first
tutorial in week 1. This oral presentation is worth 10% of your total mark. We ask that you
treat this oral presentation as a professional exercise and dress and present as if presenting to
colleagues in the workplace.
You are required to present a written paper one week after you have done your oral
presentation, on that same subject. This paper is worth 10% of your total mark. Employers
also highly value well-developed written communication skills:
“Written communication skills are extremely important. People are becoming too
familiar these days with email and text message communication. Graduates need to
appreciate that we’re still looking for well-developed, formal, written communication
skill.” (Employer of Griffith Accounting Graduates, 2004).
The total mark for tutorial-based assessment is 30% of your total mark, which constitutes a
large proportion of your final grade. We encourage you to participate in the tutorial sessions
– by reading, attending and participating in the discussion. Many students feel that most of
their learning occurs in these small-group based discussion forums, so take advantage of this
learning environment and get engaged.
All of the tutorial material is examinable - another important reason for students to get fully
involved in discussing and understanding the topic of the week. And make use of your tutor
– we are here to facilitate your learning.
Finally, we hope you enjoy the tutorial program and make the most of this unique learning
environment. Remember, get engaged and you will ultimately benefit.
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TUTORIAL TOPICS
The study questions are included in each week’s section to guide students towards
possible points of entry into the readings. These, or other questions brought up, may
be used as talking points in the discussion. The tutorial material will help you to fully
engage in the discussion forum.
TUTORIAL SCHEDULE
Week
Topic
1
Introduction
2
Indigenous People and Colonialisms
3
Theories of Development
4
Gender, Development and Environmental Ethics
5
The State and Indigenous People
6
Mabo and Native Title
7
Mining and Indigenous People in Australia
8
Mining and Tourism in the Pacific
9
No tutorial this week
10
Indigenous People and Conservation
11
Indigenous People and Climate Change
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Course Summary
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Week 1: 3 July
Introduction to Tutorial Program and
Progress and Development
The aim of this first tutorial is to introduce you to the tutorial program and assessment
structure of the course. Discussion in tutorials will be based on these readings, as well
as the material you have covered in class.
If time permits, some discussion will take place in this first week based on the readings
below, so make sure you read it before you come to class.
REQUIRED READINGS
Rist, G. 2007 Development as a Buzzword, Development in Practice, vol. 17, no 4-5, pp.
485-491
Cornwall, A. 2007 Buzzwords and fuzzwords: deconstructing development discourse,
Development in Practice, vol.17, no 4-5, pp. 471-484
SUGGESTED READINGS
Schech, S. 2012, Development Perspectives from the Antipodes: an introduction,
Third World Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 6, pp 969-980.
Kilby, P. 2012, The Changing Development Landscape in the First Decade of the 21st
Century and its Implications for Development Studies, Third World Quarterly,
Vol. 33, No. 6, pp 1001-1017.
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Week 2: 10 July
Indigenous People and Colonialism
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
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Who are Indigenous People?
Why are definitions of Indigenous People so contentious?
What kinds of relations exist between Indigenous peoples and the states in which
they are encapsulated?
Discuss colonialism and its impacts upon Indigenous peoples.
Is development thinking and practice just another form of colonialism?
Discuss the terms neo-colonialism and post colonialism.
REQUIRED READINGS
De Costa, R. 2015 Self determination and state definitions of Indigenous peoples. In
M. Woons (ed), Restoring Indigenous Self Determination, International Relations
Publishing, Bristol.
Sawyer, S. and Gomez. E. 2012 On Indigenous Identity and a language of Rights. In S.
Saywer and E. Gomez (eds), The Politics of Resource Extraction: Indigenous
Peoples, Multinational Corporations and the State, Palgrave Macmillan,
Hampshire.
Loomba, A. 2005 Colonialism/Postcolonialism. 2nd edn, Routledge, London, pp 7-22.
SUGGESTED READINGS
Kottak, C. 2012 The World System and Colonialism in Mirror for Humanity: A Concise
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. 8th Edition. Boston: McGrawHill [Chapter
10 from text from 2011ENV, therefore not included here]
Maybury-Lewis, D. 2006 “Indigenous Peoples”, (eds), R Maaka and C Andersen, The
Indigenous Experience: Global Perspectives, Canadian Scholars Press, Toronto, pp
17-29.
Power, M. 2003 Post Colonial Geographies of Development, Rethinking Development
Geographies, Routledge, London, pp 119-123.
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Week 3: 17 July
THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENT
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
• What are some of the main theories that have historically tried to explain
development and underdevelopment throughout the world?
• How has a global trend towards neoliberalism exacerbated development
inequities?
• Is culture an impediment to development or is development an impediment to
cultural diversity?
REQUIRED READINGS
McMichael, M. P. 2012 Development and Social Change. A Global Perspective, 5th ed,
Sage, Los Angeles. (pp 1-24)
Sweezy, P. 2011 Centre and Periphery. In G. Argyrous, and F. Stillwell (eds), Readings
in Political Economy: Economics as a Social Science, 3rd Edition, Tilde University
Press: Prahan.
Howlett, C., Seini, M., MacCallum, D. and Osborne, N. 2011 Neoliberalism, Mineral
Development and Indigenous People: A Framework for Analysis, Australian
Geographer, vol 42, no. 3, pp 309-323.
Springer, S. 2016 Fuck Neoliberalism. Retrieved 16/7/2016 from
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/299578791 (published under Creative
Commons licence: Attribution-noncommercial-No Derivative Works)
SUGGESTED READINGS
Schech, S. and Haggis, J. 2000 Culture and Development: a critical introduction, Blackwell
Publishers, Oxford.
Gunder Frank, A. 2008 The Development of Underdevelopment, in M. Sleigson and J
Passe-Smith (eds), Development and Underdevelopment, The Political Economy of
Global Inequality, Lynne Rienner Publishers London, pp 257-268. (reprinted
from Monthly Review Press 1969).
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Week 4: 24 July
GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT,
AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
• Have the burdens of colonialism and underdevelopment fallen equally on
Indigenous people of both genders or is there an imbalance?
• Why have previous studies of Indigenous people, and applied projects working
with them, failed to fully recognise gender issues?
• What are the implications for development practice and theory if gender issues are
taken fully into account?
• How does an indigenous environmental ethic differ from a modern environmental
ethic?
• How can peoples’ different ethical stances influence their opinions of, and
engagement with, development processes and practices?
REQUIRED READINGS
Momsen, J. H. 2010 Gender and Development, 2nd edn, Routledge, New York, pp. 11-19,
109-139.
O’Faircheallaigh, C. 2013 Women’s Absence, Women’s Power: Indigenous women
and negotiations with mining companies in Australia and Canada. Ethnic and
Racial Studies, 31(11): 1789-1807.
Kelbessa, W. 2005 The Rehabilitation of Indigenous Environmental Ethics in Africa.
Diogenes, 52(17):17-34
Chatterjee, M. 2016 A critical enquiry into the ecological visions of Ancient India
versus Modern West. Tattva – Journal of Philosophy, 8(2):19-30.
SUGGESTED READINGS
Chant, S. and Gutmann, M. 2005 “Men-streaming” Gender? Questions for Gender and
Development Policy in the Twenty First Century, in (eds) M. Edelman and A.
Haugerud, The Anthropology of Development and Globalisation, Blackwell, Oxford,
pp 240-249.
van der Hoogte, L. and Kingma, K. 2004 Promoting cultural diversity and the rights
of women: the dilemmas of 'intersectionality' for development organizations’,
Gender and Development, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 47 – 55.
Muir, C., Rose, D., and Sullivan, P. 2010 From the other side of the knowledge frontier:
Indigenous knowledge, social-ecological relationships and new perspectives,
The Rangelands Journal, vol. 32, pp. 259-265.
Lertzman, D.A. and Vredenburg, H. 2005 Indigenous Peoples, Resource Extraction
and Sustainable Development: An Ethical Approach. Journal of Business Ethics 56:
239–254, 2005.
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WEEK 5: 31 July
THE STATE AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
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Discuss some of the dominant discourses that construct Aboriginality. How
do these constructions serve to marginalise Aboriginal people further?
What is the ‘state’? Discuss the historical relationship between state sovereignty
and state power.
Discuss the particular relationship between Indigenous Australians and the
Australian state.
Critically review the recent changes in Australian state policy regarding
Indigenous people.
How are Indigenous people recognised internationally and does international
recognition influence the relationships between Indigenous peoples and the
states they are encapsulated within?
REQUIRED READINGS
Macoun, A. 2011 Aboriginality and the Northern Territory Intervention, Australian
Journal of Political Science, vol. 46, pp. 519-534
McCormack, F. 2011 Levels of Indigeneity: The Maori and neoliberalism, Journal of
Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 17, pp. 281-300.
Alfred, G. T. 2009 Sovereignty – An Inappropriate Concept. In R Maaka and C.
Anderson (eds), The Indigenous Experience - Global Perspectives, Canadian
Scholars Press Inc., Toronto, pp. 322-336.
Austin-Broos, D. 2011 The Politics of Difference and Inequality, in A Different
Inequality, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, pp 135-168.
Gomez, E. and Sawyer, S. 2012, State, Capital and Multinational Institutions, The
Politics of Resource Extraction: Indigenous Peoples, Multinational Corporations and
the State, (eds) S. Saywer and E. Gomez, Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire.
Bielefeld, S. 2016 Neoliberalism and the return of the guardian state: micro managing
Indigenous peoples in a new chapter of colonial governance. In W. Sanders
(ed), Engaging indigenous economy debating diverse approaches, Research
Monograph No. 35, The Australian National University Press, Canberra.
SUGGESTED READINGS
Lachmann, R. 2010, States and capitalist development. States and Power, Polity Press,
Cambridge.
O'Faircheallaigh, C., 2012 International Recognition of Indigenous Rights, Indigenous
Control of Development and Domestic Political Mobilisation, Australian Journal
of Political Science, 47:4, 531-545
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Week 6: 7August
MABO and NATIVE TITLE
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
• What was the effect of Mabo and the recognition of native title on Indigenous rights
in land and natural resources in Australia?
• What are the main provisions of the Native Title Act 1993 and the Native Title
Amendment Act 1998?
• Has native title legislation fulfilled the potential of the Mabo decision?
REQUIRED READINGS
National Native Title Tribunal 2012, About Native Title, National Native Title Tribunal,
Canberra, Australia. Retrieved 7/7/12 from http://www.nntt.gov.au/
Bauman, T., Strelein, L., and Weir, J. 2013, Navigating complexity: living with native
title, Living with native title : the experiences of registered native title corporations ,
(eds) T Bauman, L Strelein and J Weir, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.
Walker, B. 2015, The Legal Shortcomings of Native Title. In S. Brennan, M. Davis, B.
Edgeworth and L. Terrill (eds), Native Title from Mabo to Akiba: A Vehicle for
Change and Empowerment? Federation Press, Sydney.
O’Faircheallaigh, C. 2015, Native Title, Aboriginal Self Government and Economic
Participation. In S. Brennan, M. Davis, B. Edgeworth and L. Terrill (eds), Native
Title from Mabo to Akiba: A Vehicle for Change and Empowerment? Federation
Press, Sydney.
SUGGESTED READINGS:
Butt, P and Eagleson, R 2001, Mabo, Wik & Native Title (4thed), The Federation Press,
Leichhardt, pp. 125- 134.
Russell, P 2005, ‘The Limits of Judicial Power,’ Recognizing Aboriginal Title. The Mabo
case and Indigenous Resistance to English Settler Colonialism, University of Toronto
Press, Toronto.
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Week 7: 14 August
MINING IN AUSTRALIA
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
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Does mining have the potential to deliver development opportunities for
Aboriginal Australia?
Why is there a need for caution when celebrating the benefits of mineral
development for Aboriginal people?
Why are the potential benefits from mining often not realised in many
Aboriginal communities? What is the role of the state in this scenario?
REQUIRED READINGS
Howlett, C. 2010 Indigenous Agency and Mineral Development: A Cautionary Note’,
Studies in Political Economy, vol 85, pp. 99-123.
O'Faircheallaigh, C. 2013 ‘Extractive Industries and Indigenous peoples: A Changing
Dynamic?’ Journal of Rural Studies, vol 30, pp. 20-30.
Altman, J. 2012 Indigenous Rights, mining Corporations and the Australian State. In
S. Saywer and E. Gomez (eds), The Politics of Resource Extraction: Indigenous
Peoples, Multinational Corporations and the State, Palgrave Macmillan,
Hampshire.
O’Fairchaeallaigh, C. 2015 Social Equity and Large Mining Projects: Voluntary
Industry Initiatives, Public Regulation and Community Development
Agreements, Journal of Business Ethics, vol 132, pp 91–103. DOI 10.1007/s10551014-2308-3
SUGGESTED READINGS
Howlett, C. 2010 Flogging a dead horse? Neo Marxism and Indigenous mining
negotiations, Australian Journal of Political Science, vol.45, no.3, pp. 457-474.
O’Faircheallaigh, C. 2006 Aborigines, Mining Companies and the State in
Contemporary Australia: A New Political Economy or ‘Business as Usual? Australian
Journal of Political Science, vol.41, no. 1, pp. 1-22.
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Week 8: 21 August
MINING AND TOURISM IN THE PACIFIC
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
• What have been the impacts of mining and tourism on Indigenous societies in the
Pacific region?
• Are mining and tourism activities a viable means of enhancing the livelihoods of
Pacific Islanders?
• Does ‘ecotourism’ offer an alternative in which Indigenous peoples can get
involved to their benefit?
REQUIRED READINGS
United Nations 2009 State of the World’s Indigenous People, United Nations Report, New
York, pp. 88-90.
Macintyre, M. and Foale, S. 2013 Science, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and
Anthropology: Managing the Impacts of Mining in Papua New Guinea.
Collaborative Anthropologies, Volume 6, p399-418.
Hinch, T. and Butler, R. 2007 Introduction: Revisiting Common Ground. In R. Butler
and T. Hinch (eds), Tourism and Indigenous Peoples: Issues and Implications. Oxford:
Elsevier. pp 2-12.
Hillmer-Pegram, K. 2016 Integrating Indigenous values with capitalism through
tourism: Alaskan experiences and outstanding issues. Journal of Sustainable
Tourism.
SUGGESTED READINGS
Connell, J. 2006 ‘Nauru: the first failed Pacific state’, The Round Table, vol. 95, no. 383,
pp.47-63.
Curry, G, Koczberski, G. and Connell, J. 2012 Introduction: enacting modernity in the
Pacific? Australian Geographer, 43(2): 115-125.
Kirsch, S. 2008 Indigenous Movements and the Risk of Counterglobalisation: tracking
the campaign against Papua New Guinea’s Ok Tedi mine. American Ethnologist,
34(2):303-321.
Bainton, N. and Cook, J. 2009 Challenges and Opportunities in the Development of a
Cultural Heritage Management Strategy at the Lihir Gold Mine, Papua New Guinea.
SDIMI Conference, Gold Coast. Pp 45-50.
Zeppel, H. 2007 Indigenous Ecotourism: Conservation and Resource Rights. In J.
Higham (ed.) Critical Issues in Ecotourism: Understanding a complex tourism
phenomenon. Oxford: Elsevier. Pp 308-348.
Centre for Social Responsibility in of Queensland, Brisbane
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Week 9: 28 August
No classes this week due to public holidays. This week is an
independent study week. Please use this time to work on your major
assignment.
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Week 10: 4 September
CONSERVATION AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
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What is ‘conservation’ and why has it become such an important consideration in
recent decades?
What do we try to conserve, and why?
What impacts to conservation policies and practices have on Indigenous Peoples?
REQUIRED READINGS
Adams, W. M. 2003 Nature and the Colonial Mind. In W. Adams and M. Mulligan
(eds), Decolonizing Nature: strategies for conservation in a post-colonial era, Earthscan,
London, pp. 16-50.
Zeppel, H. 2009 National Parks as Cultural Landscapes: Indigenous peoples,
conservation and tourism. In W. Frost and C. Hall (eds), Tourism and National
Parks: International perspectives on development, histories and change, Routledge,
New York, pp. 259-281.
Keppel, G., Morrison, C., Watling, D., Tuiwawa, M. and Rounds, I. 2012 Conservation
in tropical Pacific Island countries: why most current approaches are failing.
Conservation Letters, 0:1-10.
Vincent, E. and Neale, T. 2016 Unstable relations: a critical appraisal of indigeneity and
environmentalism in contemporary Australia. The Australian Journal of
Anthropology, p1-23.
SUGGESTED READINGS
Peterson, R., Russell, D., West, P. and Brosius, P. 2010 Seeing (and Doing)
Conservation Through Cultural Lenses. Environmental Management, vol. 25, pp
5-18.
Holt, F. 2005 The Catch-22 of Conservation: Indigenous Peoples, Biologists, and
Cultural Change. Human Ecology, vol. 33, no. 2, pp 199-215.
Colchester, M 2004 Conservation Policy and Indigenous peoples. Cultural Survival
Quarterly, vol 28, no. 1. http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/csq/csqarticle.cfm?id=1738
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Week 11: 11 September
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND CLIMATE CHANGE
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
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How are Indigenous peoples likely to be affected by climate change?
Are indigenous peoples more likely to adversely impacted by climate change
than non-indigenous people? Why?
What solutions exist to these problems?
How can Indigenous knowledge contribute to understanding climate change?
REQUIRED READINGS
Cochran, P., Huntington, O., Pungowiyi, C., Tom, S., Chapin III, S., Huntington, H.,
Maynard, N. and Trainor, S. 2013 Indigenous frameworks for observing and
responding to climate change in Alaska. Climatic Change, 120:557–567.
Leonard, S., Parsons, M., Olawsky, K. and Kofod, F. 2013 The role of culture and
traditional knowledge in climate change adaptation: Insights from East
Kimberley, Australia. Global Environmental Change, 23:623–632.
Bridges, K. W. and McClatchey, W. C. 2009 Living on the margin: Ethnoecological
insights from Marshall Islanders at Rongelap atoll, Global Environmental Change,
19(2):140-146.
Alexander, C., Bynum, N., Johnson, E., King, U., Mustonen, T., Neofotis, P., Oettle, N.,
Rosenzweig, C., Shadrin, V., Vicarelli, J. and Weeks, B. 2011 Linking Indigenous
and Scientific Knowledge of Climate Change. BioScience, 61:447-484.
SUGGESTED READINGS
Macchi, M. 2008 Indigenous and Traditional Peoples and Climate Change: Issues Paper.
IUCN. cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/indigenous_peoples_climate_change.pdf
Global Environmental Change Volume 19, Issue 2. Special issue on Indigenous Peoples
and Climate Change. May 2009.
Ford, J. D., Smit, B. and Wandel, J. 2006 Vulnerability to climate change in Igloolik,
Nunavut: what we can learn from the past and present. Polar Record, vol.42, no.
221, pp. 127–138.
Risks from Climate Change to Indigenous Peoples in the north of Australia.
http://www.climatechange.gov.au/~/media/publications/adaptation/climatechange-risks-to-indigenous-full-report.ashx
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WEEK 12: 18 September
Course Summary and Exam preparation
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3041ENV Development and Indigenous Peoples
Tutorial Presentation - Criteria for Mark Sheet
Name: ___________________________________________________
Tutorial Day and Time:
Topic/Readings:
_________________________________________
______________________________________________
Comments:
Presentation:
In this section we will be marking you on the presentations of your material (use of
PowerPoint or other media), your speaking voice, eye contact, timing and overall
manner in which you communicate to the audience. We expect you to dress as if
presenting to a professional workplace and present as if presenting to
colleagues/leaders within the workplace.
/3
Command of Material:
We will be marking you on your summary of the course material for this weeks topic –
from lectures, readings, films etc. We will be looking for a comprehensive
understanding of the main themes and issues presented in these course materials, and
do not expect a simple regurgitation of the lecture.
/4
Facilitation of Group Discussion:
We will provide you with a mark on how well you are able to engage the other students
in the tutorial in discussion about the major themes and issues you identified in the
course materials for this weeks topic. You will need to identify contestable issues and
present them in such a way that they stimulate debate and discussion. We encourage
you to be as creative as possible here and use as many mediums as you can (eg. Audio
or You Tube or other visual media). Identify key questions/issues and creatively
explore them to stimulate discussion.
/3
Total:
Tutor:
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