Institutional vehicles for place-shaping in remote Australia

Title
Institutional vehicles for place-shaping in remote Australia
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Blackwell, Boyd
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8143-158X
Email: bblackw2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:bblackw2
Dollery, Brian E
Grant, Bligh
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1080/13562576.2015.1014227
UNE publication id
une:17784
Abstract
Some communities in remote Australia represent the most impoverished people in the country, with the problem especially acute amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Effective remedial intervention is often undermined by the absence of democratically elected, local government institutions. Place-shaping as a developmental process enables local people to become agents of change, and thereby self-determine and shape their places for the future. This paper considers the different institutional structures which could underpin place-shaping in remote settlements. Drawing on a range of governance structures, an emphasis on less traditional entities and polity-forming bodies may better serve the interests of remote people.
Link
Citation
Space and Polity, 19(2), p. 150-169
ISSN
1470-1235
1356-2576
Start page
150
End page
169

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