Contemporary Aboriginal settlements: understanding mixed-market approaches

Other Views of Northern Australian Aspirations: Pre‑Notions, Ideologies and Remoteness

“…Previous analysis identified that residents derive socioeconomic benefits from mixed markets (Lovell et al, 2015a;Lovell et al, 2016) through their capacity to use local assets-such as natural, cultural, social and knowledge capitals-to produce products or services with a market value. These assets are 'valued' quite differently by custodians, non-markets and markets (Lovell et al, 2015a, p. 3) and it is in an interface of activity, opportunity and transaction that residents derive socioeconomic benefits.…”

“…Mixed-market activity shares features of socioeconomic benefit with social enterprises in other countries (Lovell et al, 2016). In two advanced market democracies, Canada and Australia, the constraints of national quantitative data and the lack of typological qualitative definition (McMurtry & Brouard, 2015;Sengupta et al, 2015) have prevented useful distinctions between social enterprises as market, mixed-market or non-market models.…”

National Data: Reflecting Northern Australian Aspirations?

“…The previous research used a snapshot of national ABS census data from 2011 and available industry information to hypothesise that mixed-market economic activity is under-reported in these communities (Lovell et al, 2015a). In addition, these Australian clusters were compared to remote Canadian Indigenous communities, finding that similar issues are apparent in both countries regarding the limits to data adequacy, resulting in constraints on the understanding of economic activity and the development of public policy (Lovell et al, 2016).…”

“…While the statistical limitations inherent in small sample sizes extracted from large data collections are well known, the ABS census data appears to be the best option available. The whole of population data has proven to be only marginally useful when attempting to understand, and exert policy influence on, the behaviour of individuals in the two advanced market democracies of Australia and Canada (Lovell et al, 2016;Pearson & Daff, 2014;Sengupta et al, 2015).…”

Cultural Capacity and Development; the case for flexible, interdisciplinary research in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities

“…For the 'Beneath the Canvas' project, researchers who held close familial relationships with senior artists held interviews solely in Pitjantjatjara language with few questions, allowing opportunities for artists to share stories and describe, in depth and in local language, their approaches to cultural maintenance, knowledge transfer and the relationship between these sites, stories and the art they produce. Tjala Arts is an example of what Altman (2005) calls a 'hybrid economy', where market and non-market sources (such as government funding, see Wolf, 1998) resource dynamic spaces for social, cultural and economic activity (Acker & Sullivan, 2014;Lovell et al, 2016;Woodhead & Acker, 2014). These topics were selected as the researchers believed that developing an understanding of the relationship between cultural knowledge, the social context of knowledge transmission and potential economic opportunities was of utmost importance to the community.…”