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• Preliminary Pages
• Notes on Contributors
• Abbreviations and acronyms
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements

1. Understanding Indigenous Australian governance—research, theory and representations

Part 1. The governance environment

2. Between a rock and a hard place: self-determination, mainstreaming and Indigenous community governance
3. Constraints on researchers acting as change agents

Part 2. Culture, power and the intercultural

4. Cultures of governance and the governance of culture: transforming and containing Indigenous institutions in West Arnhem Land
5. Whose governance, for whose good? The Laynhapuy Homelands Association and the neo-assimilationist turn in Indigenous policy
6. Regenerating governance on Kaanju homelands

Part 3. Institutions of Indigenous governance

7. Different governance for difference: the Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation
8. The business of governing: building institutional capital in an urban enterprise
9. Indigenous leaders and leadership: agents of networked governance

Part 4. Contesting cultural geographies of governance

10. Noongar Nation
11. Regionalism that respects localism: the Anmatjere Community Government Council and beyond

Part 5. Rebuilding governance

12. Incorporating cattle: governance and an Aboriginal pastoral enterprise
13. Mapping expectations around a ‘governance review’ exercise of a West Kimberley organisation

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