Part 1. The governance environment

Table of Contents

2. Between a rock and a hard place

Background

Changing the arrangements

Development discourses and the alleged ‘failure’ of self-determination

Indigenous discourses

The Homelands debate

Mainstreaming CDEP and CHIP

The outcomes of the COAG trials

The 2007 intervention in the NT

Governance complexity and contestation

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

3. Constraints on researchers acting as change agents

Background

Making the concept of governance tangible

Research funding as a determinant of methodology

Positionality and ‘balance’

The role and power of ‘officials’

Enforcing marginalisation: what’s in a name?

Notions of good development

Acknowledgements

References