Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
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Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
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Professor Jon Altman, Director CAEPR
Jon Altman is Professor and the Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research. He has a disciplinary background in economics and anthropology. In 1990, Jon was appointed the foundation director of CAEPR and since 2001 he has been an adjunct professor at the School for Environmental Research at Charles Darwin University, Darwin. Since 2003 Jon has been a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Research Interests
Professor Altman's research interests are wide and include: Sustainable economic development and associated policy issues for Indigenous Australia; the economic engagement of Indigenous people with the Australian and global economies (especially in mining, tourism, arts industries and emerging industries); sustainable commercial utilisation of wildlife and fisheries; the Indigenous customary economy and its articulations with the market; land rights, native title and Indigenous land management; and theoretical issues in economic and development anthropology. Jon undertook fieldwork for his doctorate in the Maningrida region, central Arnhem Land in 1979-81 and has maintained vibrant and diverse research relations with this region for over twenty years. He has also undertaken field research in north Queensland, the Torres Strait, the Kimberleys and Central Australia. Jon is currently involved in a number of ARC Linkage projects including mining, timber harvesting, Indigenous forestry, Banteng management and governance. Other research he is currently undertaking focuses on sustainable harvesting of wildlife in western and central Arnhem Land in collaboration with biological scientists from the Tropical Savannas Management CRC in Darwin and the Northern Australia Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance (NAILSMA). Jon maintains some important research linkages, especially with the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Savannas Management, NAILSMA (where he is on the Technical Reference Group for the Turtle and Dugong Management Project and the Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Scoping Study), and the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre. He also regularly collaborates with Aboriginal land councils in the Northern Territory.
Graduate Teaching and Higher Degree Supervision
While Jon does some undergraduate lecturing, his main focus is on graduate teaching. In 2005 he developed a Graduate Program in Indigenous Policy as a stream of the Masters in Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development (MAAPD). This followed the successful piloting of the graduate course Development Dilemmas for Indigenous Australians (ANTH 8029) in 2004 and 2005. In 2006, Jon is the convener of the MAAPD (Indigenous Policy), and will teach in Indigenous Development in Australia:Problems and Prospects/Development Dilemmas for Indigenous Australians (ANTH 8040/8029) as well as in other MAAPD courses such as Gender Development and Social Context (ANTH 8038) and Development in Practice: The Business of Applied Social Research (ANTH 8009). ANTH 8029 is also available as an elective to students undertaking a Masters in Public Policy. Jon supervises and advises PhD students primarily located at CAEPR, but also in other parts of the ANU and at Charles Darwin University, Darwin and Murdoch University, Perth, as well as overseas at Radbout University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands and at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. A number of students uder Jon's supervision are associated with ARC Linkage projects (on mining, forestry and the arts industry). Jon will be focusing his immediate future supervision on PhD scholars researching Indigenous economic development issues, with key areas of speciality including the hybrid economy, land rights and native title, and engagement in particular industries such as the arts and tourism. Priority will be given to students enrolling at CAEPR and in other parts of the ANU College of the Arts and Social Sciences.
Career Highlights
Professor Altman's career highlights include chairing the review of the Aboriginals Benefit Trust Account in 1984; chairing the review of the Aboriginal Arts and Crafts Industry in 1989; participating in the review of Native Title Representative Bodies in 1995; appointment as independent expert to the Kakadu Regional Social Impact Study in 1996-97; and membership of the UNESCO Kakadu Mission in 1998.
Key Publications & Research
Select the links below for detailed listings of Professor Altman's research outputs. Journal Articles | Book Chapters | Other Publications Full Book Reviews
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