Richie Howitt's Publications

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Papers are organised by topic: Indigenous Rights; Resource Management; Geographical scale; Social Impact Assessment; Geographical Eduction; Changing Corporate Culture; Other Topics.

 (Cover Art © Fiona Cross)

R Howitt (2001) Rethinking Resource Management: Justice, Sustainability and Indigenous Peoples, Routledge, London.

Go to Routledge’s page for this book: click here

Go to Dr Bill Jonas’ speech at the launch of Rethinking Resource Management in 2001. (PDF)

Indigenous rights

Papers on the South Australian Native Title Negotiations

Link to SA Negotiations site click here

Changing Places: Challenging the absence of self-determination as a principle in the administration of Native Title in Australia (2004) Agius, P, Howitt, R, Jarvis, S., Johns, L. and Williams, R. Paper for presentation to Dialogues Across Cultures Conference, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, November 2004 (PDF)

Dialogues ­ within, between and across cultures: Creating cultures of communication and processes for understanding (2004) Agius, P, Howitt, R, Jarvis, S., Johns, L. and Williams, R. Paper for presentation to Dialogues Across Cultures Conference, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, November 2004 (PDF)

Process Issues in Native Title Negotiations in South Australia (2004) Agius, P, Howitt, R, Jarvis, S. and Williams, R.  Paper for presentation to ‘Processes for Cross-Cultural Engagement’, a Special Session in the Remote Regions/Northern Development Session of the Western Regional Science Association Meeting, 26-29 February 2004, Wailea Marriott Resort, Maui (PDF)

Different Visions, Different Ways: lessons and challenges from the native title negotiations in South Australia, Agius, Parry, Howitt, Richie and Jarvis, Sandy (2003). Paper presented to the Native Title Conference 2003 Alice Springs, Northern Territory, 3-5 June 2003 (PDF)

Doing Native Title as Self-Determination, (2003). Agius, P, Howitt, R, Jarvis, S. and Williams, R. paper presented to the Second Pacific Regional Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Brisbane, September 2003. (PDF)

Comprehensive Native Title Negotiations in South Australia, (2003). Agius, P, Davies, J., Howitt, R, Jarvis, S. and Williams, R. Paper published in revised form as a chapter in Langton, M., Palmer, L. and Tehan, M. (2004), Negotiating Settlements: Indigenous Peoples, Settler States and the Significance of Treaties and Agreements, Melbourne University Press (PDF) (Figures in PDF)

Negotiating Comprehensive Settlement of Native Title Issues: building a new scale of justice in South Australia. (2002). Agius, P., J. Davies, R. Howitt and L. Johns. Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies. Available on-line at: http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/rsrch/ntru/ntpapers/IP20v2.pdf

Other work on Indigenous Issues

Rethinking the Building Blocks: management and indigenous epistemologies (2004), Howitt, R and suchet-Pearson, S. paper presented to ‘Processes for Cross-Cultural Engagement’, a Special Session in the Remote Regions/Northern Development Session of the Western Regional Science Association Meeting, Wailea, Maui, February 2004 (PDF)

Spaces of Knowledge: Ontological Pluralism in Contested Cultural Landscapes. Howitt, R. and S. Suchet-Pearson (2003). Revised and published as Ontological Pluralism in Contested Cultural Landscapes.  Handbook of Cultural Geography. K. Anderson, M. Domosh, S. Pile and N. Thrift. London, Sage: 557-569. (PDF)

Changing Country: Telling Stories: research ethics, methods and empowerment ­ working with Aboriginal women (2003) Howitt, R. and Suchet-Pearson, S. paper presented to the Fluid Bonds: Gender in Water Resource Management Seminar, ANU, Canberra, October 2003, and to be published in 2005 in revised form in Lahiri-Dutt, Kantala (ed) Fluid Bonds: Gender and Water Stree Calcutta/Kolkata (PDF)

Inequality: local injustices, invisibility, blindness and their legacies (2002) Local Government Community Services Association NSW State Conference 'Without Prejudice: access and equity a service guarantee', Macquarie University, Sydney, November 2002. (Invited Contribution) (see also Powerpoint presentation to accompany this talk) (PDF)

Indigenous Australian Geographies: Landscape, Property and Governance (2003). Paper presented to NSW Geographical Society Conference 2003 Geography’s New Frontiers, UNSW March 2003, revised and published as Howitt, R. (2003). Indigenous Australian Geographies: Landscape, Property and Governance, Garner, B.J. (ed) Geography’s New Frontiers: Conference Proceedings, NSW Geographical Society Conference Papers 17, Sydney: 237-249. (see also Powerpoint presentation to accompany this talk) (PDF)

A Nation In Dialogue: recognition, reconciliation and indigenous rights in Australia (2002) Paper presented as a seminar at Okanagan University College, British Columbia, as part of the International Seminar on Critical Studies of Culture, Society and Space and based on a paper published as Howitt, R (2001) A Nation in Dialogue: Recognition, reconsciliation and indigenous rights in Australia, Hagar International Social Science Review, 2(2): 261-275. (PDF)

Frontiers, borders, edges: liminal challenges to the hegemony of exclusion, paper revised and published in Australian Geographical Studies 39.2: 233-245. (PDF)

Opening the margins: nurturing discursive spaces in fieldwork, writing and teaching, paper presented IAG Conference, University of Sydney, September 1999 [note: this paper was presented to a conference session hosted by the Indigenous Issues Study Group of IAG. Other papers from the session are also available here]. (PDF)

Towards Native Title Agreements: issues of negotiation and organization (paper prepared for CMGT170 Aboriginal Issues in Resource Development, October 1999). (PDF)

Indigenous rights and regional economies: rethinking the building blocks (Rethinking Economy Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, August 9, 1999) (PDF)

Recognition, respect and reconciliation: steps towards decolonisation (revised paper presented to IAG Conference, University of Tasmania, January 1997. Published in Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1998) (PDF)

Some things do change (co-authored with Sue Jackson, published in Australian Geographer, 1998) (PDF)

The Other Side of the Table: regional agreements and the culture of mining companies. (AIATSIS Regional Agreements Discussion Papers, 2.) Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra (1997) download this paper from:http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/ra/RAIP3.RTF

Terra Nullius No More (Inaugural International Conference in Critical Geography, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (August 10-13, 1997) (PDF)

Getting the scale right: the geopolitics of regional agreements (paper presented to the National Indigenous Working Group, Canberra, May 1997) (PDF)

Strategic Co-management: dealing with resource industries under Coalition policy settings (paper presented to Native Title Summit, hosted by the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, Canberra, May, 1996) (PDF)

Exploration, mining and indigenous futures (originally prepared in 1991 for Ngaanyatjarra Council and the Kimberley Land Council) (PDF)

Native title and resource management: issues from the Australian aluminium industry (paper presented to the NSW Geography Teachers Association, August 1993) (PDF)

Participation, power and research in Central Australia (paper later published in Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1990) (PDF)

Creation and appropriation of geography in Central Australia (paper presented to IAG Conference, Armidale, September 1990) (PDF)

Resource Management

Rethinking Resource Management: seeing, thinking and doing things as if justice matters (2004) paper prepared for presentation to Sustainable Forest Management Network Seminar Series, Environmental Studies Research Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, October 2004 (PDF) (Presentation)

Seeing Forests, Trees and Landscapes: professional literacy, justice and ethical engagement (2004) Presentation to session on “Forestry Education and Capacity in Indian Country”, Canadian Institute of Forestry/Society of American Foresters, Joint Conference Edmonton, Alberta, October 5, 2004 (PDF) (Presentation)

Rethinking the Building Blocks: management and indigenous epistemologies (2004), Howitt, R and suchet-Pearson, S. paper presented to ‘Processes for Cross-Cultural Engagement’, a Special Session in the Remote Regions/Northern Development Session of the Western Regional Science Association Meeting, Wailea, Maui, February 2004, accepted in revised form for publication in Tidschrifft (PDF)

Changing Country: Telling Stories: research ethics, methods and empowerment ­ working with Aboriginal women (2003) Howitt, R. and Suchet-Pearson, S. paper presented to the Fluid Bonds: Gender in Water Resource Management Seminar, ANU, Canberra, October 2003, and to be published in 2005 in revised form in Lahiri-Dutt, Kantala (ed) Fluid Bonds: Gender and Water Stree Calcutta/Kolkata (PDF)

R Howitt (2001) Rethinking Resource Management: Justice, Sustainability and Indigenous Peoples, Routledge, London. ~ Go to Routledge’s page for this book: click here

Geographical scale

Getting the scale right: a relational scale politics of native title in Australia (2005), paper prepared (but not presented at) dies in Political Economy Conference: Towards A Political Economy of scale Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada, February 2005 . (PDF)

Nests, Webs and Constructs: contested concepts of scale in political geography (2000), revised version published as Howitt, R. (2003). scale. A Companion to Political Geography. J. Agnew, K. Mitchell and G. Toal. Oxford, Blackwell: 138-157. (PDF)

scale and the Other: embodiment, emplacement and infinity (2000), revised version published as Howitt, R. (2002). “scale and the other: Levinas and geography.” Geoforum 33(3): 299-313. (PDF)

scale Bibliography (2000), a working bibliography providing a wide range of references about the concept, application and meaning of geographical scale. (PDF)

[see also scale Project Home Page]

scale as relation: musical metaphors of geographical scale (a revised version of this paper was published in Area 30(1): 49-58, 1998) (PDF)

Getting the scale right: the geopolitics of regional agreements (paper presented to the National Indigenous Working Group, Canberra, May 1997) (PDF)

Social Impact Assessment

Social Impact Assessment Bibliography (2001), a working bibliography providing a wide range of references on this important field. (PDF)

SIA and linear projects: methodological issues arising from the Alice Springs to Darwin Railway (co-authored with Sue Jackson, prepared as a chapter for inclusion in Laurence Goldman(ed) Social Impact Analysis: an applied anthropology manual, Berg Publishers, Oxford, published in 2000. (PDF)

Local and non-specialist participation in impact assessment revised and published as Howitt, Richard (2003). Local and non-specialist participation in impact assessment, in: C.-Q. Liu, Z. Zhao, T. Xiao and J. Guha, Strategic Management of Environmental and Socio-Economic Issues: A Handbook. Guiyang, China, Guizhou Science and Technology Publishing House: 27-36. (PDF)

Preface (Social Impact Assessment paper) published as Howitt, R. (2003). Preface. Gagnon, C. A Social Impact Follow-Up Model for Environmental Impact Assessment and Regional Sustainable Development (Modèle de suivi des incidences socials evaluation environnementale et développement regional viable) (Bi-lingual CD-ROM), Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. (http://www.uqac.uquebec.ca/msiaa/index.html) (PDF)

Geographical Education

A Geographer's Way of Seeing - geographical imaginaries and political realities, published as Howitt, Richard (2002) A Geographer's Way of Seeing - geographical imaginaries and political realities. Interaction: Journal of the Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria 30.4: 7-12 (GTAV Conference Keynote Speech 2002). (see also Powerpoint presentation to accompany this talk) (PDF)

Mining and the Australian Environment (2003). Presentation to the Science Teachers Association of NSW Professional Development Day, Macquarie University, August 2003.  (see also Powerpoint presentation to accompany this talk) (PDF)

Constructing engagement: geographical education for justice within and beyond tertiary classrooms (2001), paper presented as the INLT/JGIHE Lecture, IBG/RGS Conference, University of Plymouth, January 2001 (under revision for publication in the Journal of Geography in Higher Education. Please note that this site includes the Powerpoint presentation used with the delivery of the lecture in Plymouth). (PDF)

For whom do we teach? The paradox of ‘excellence’ (2000), editorial prepared for Journal of Geography in Higher Education 24.3: 317-323. (PDF)

Nourishing conversations in the co-construction of knowledge (prepared by Macquarie Human Geography Group as a chapter in a forthcoming book on postgraduate supervision being edited by Alison Bartlett and Gina Mercer under the working title 'Two in the Kitchen: practising postgraduate pedagogy') (July 1999). (PDF)

Reconciling geographies: unified fields or chaotic fragments (paper presented to the IAG Postgraduate Forum, Macquarie University, February 1998) (PDF)

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Research Ethics and Methods

Cross-Cultural Research: ethics, methods and relationships (2004) Howitt, R and Stevens, S. published in revised form as a chapter in Hay, I (ed) Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography (2nd Edition), Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2005 (PDF)

Changing Country: Telling Stories: research ethics, methods and empowerment ­ working with Aboriginal women (2003) Howitt, R. and Suchet-Pearson, S. paper presented to the Fluid Bonds: Gender in Water Resource Management Seminar, ANU, Canberra, October 2003, and to be published in 2005 in revised form in Lahiri-Dutt, Kantala (ed) Fluid Bonds: Gender and Water Stree Calcutta/Kolkata (PDF)

Worlds Turned Upside Down: inclusionary research in Australia (2002), Association of American Geographers Conference, Los Angeles, March 2002. (Invited Panel Contribution: Inclusionary Geographies). (see also Powerpoint presentation to accompany this talk) (PDF)

Unified Fields or Chaotic Fragments? Reconciling Geographies (1998) paper presented at Institute of Australian Geographers 1998 Postgraduate Student Forum Macquarie University, February 1998 (PDF)

Changing Corporate Culture

[See Changing Corporate Culture Project homepage]

Other Topics

Obituary: Dr Elspeth Young, published in Australian Geographical Studies Vol 41 No. 1 (March 2003) and co-written with R Gerard Ward. © Institute of Australian Geographers, used with permission. (PDF)

Working for environmental justice: planning pathway for you, public lecture presented at Macquarie University Open Day 1999 (advice on planning programs of study for environmental-related employment)

Fingers of the sea (unpublished children's story, 1996)

 

 

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