Part 2. Culture, power and the intercultural
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Part 2. Culture, power and the intercultural
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4. Cultures of governance and the governance of culture
Introduction
The research process
Seeing governance like a state
The NT view of governance
The collaborative phase
Reverting to coercion
Regionalisation in West Arnhem Land
The collaborative phase
Coercive implementation
Re-imagining Indigenous governance
Constructing the region
Seeing the pattern of Indigenous governance
Governing ‘two-ways’
Transforming institutions
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
5. Whose governance, for whose good?
Introduction
A colonial history?
The incursion of the pastoral frontier
‘Mission times’
Mining and land rights
The homelands movement and the origins of Laynha
The Yolngu ‘world’
Rom
and
gurrutu
: the foundations of Yolngu governance
Mobility in the midst of stability
Leadership in the Yolngu world
Gender and leadership
Laynha as an intercultural zone
The Laynha constituency: connubia and ‘membership’
The Laynha ‘community’
Leadership in the Laynha context
Power, accountability and value
Two contrasting conceptualisations of Laynha as an organisation
The view of the neo-assimilationist state
The Yolngu view, 2005
Culture mismatch?
Meeting the neo-assimilationist challenge, 2005–07
Conclusion: towards a negotiated and empowering system of governance in the intercultural space
Acknowledgements
References
6. Regenerating governance on Kaanju homelands
Introduction
The Aboriginal domain, the mainstream and the intercultural field
Kaanju homelands
Kaanju outstations (1989–96)
Development of Chuulangun (late 1990s–present)
Discussion
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References