Dr Patrick Sullivan |
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| Visiting Research Fellow, Indigenous Regional Organisation, Governance and Public Policy | |
Contact Details |
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GPO Box 553 AIATSIS Canberra ACT 2601 |
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Telephone: +61 2 6246 1104 Facsimile: +61 2 6249 7714 |
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| Email Patrick Sullivan | |
Patrick Sullivan is an anthropologist who has studied the engagement of Aboriginal people with the Australian Public Sector since his introduction to the Kimberley region, West Australia, in 1983. Much of his professional life has been spent working with independent Aboriginal organisations. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles, as well as practical reports, and the book All Freeman Now: Culture, Community and Politics in NW Australia (Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra 1996)
Current Research Interests
Dr Sullivan’s current active research interests include: the anthropology of organisations; the anthropology of policy; critical management studies; whole-of-government Aboriginal service delivery and development.
His current projects include:
- Culture, Management and Governance in Indigenous Communities and Organisations
- Public and Community Sector Governance in Indigenous Affairs Administration
Selected publications
(2008) Reciprocal Accountability: Assessing the Accountability Environment in Australian Aboriginal Affairs Policy, International Journal of Public Sector Management, forthcoming.
(2008) Bureaucratic Process as Morris Dance: an Ethnographic Approach to the Culture of Bureaucracy in Australian Aboriginal Affairs Administration, Critical Perspectives on International Business, forthcoming.
(2006) Culture Without Cultures: the Culture Effect, Introduction to Sullivan P. and Bauman, T. (eds) Delimiting Indigenous Cultures: Conceptual and Spatial Boundaries, The Australian Journal of Anthropology special edition, 17 (3).
(2006) Indigenous Governance: the Harvard Project on Native American Economic Development and Appropriate Principles of Governance for Aboriginal Australia, Research Programme Discussion Paper No:17, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra. Available here (pdf: opens in a new window).
(2005) Strange bedfellows: Whole-of-government Policy and Shared Responsibility Agreements - Implications for Regional Governance, Indigenous Community Governance Project Working Paper, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, Available here (pdf: opens in a new window).
(2005) In Search of the Intercultural, In Search of the Culture, in Hinkson, M. and B. Smith (eds): Figuring the Intercultural in Aboriginal Australia, Oceania Vol. 75 No. 3, pp. 183-194.
(1998) Saltwater, Freshwater and Yawuru Social Organisation in N. Peterson and B. Rigsby (eds): Customary Marine Tenure, Oceania Monograph 48, pp. 96-108.
(1997) From Land Rights to Political Rights: Hunter-gatherer politics and the contemporary Australian state, Tsantsa, (the journal of the Swiss Society of Ethnology), pp. 9-27.
(1997) A Sacred Land, A Sovereign People, an Aboriginal Corporation – Prescribed Bodies and the Native Title Act. Darwin: North Australia Research Unit, ANU.
(1996) All Things to All People: ATSIC and Australia's International Obligation to Uphold the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in Sullivan, P. (ed) Shooting the Banker - Essays on ATSIC and self-determination, Darwin: North Australia Research Unit, ANU
(1996): All Free Man Now: Culture, Community and Politics in the Kimberley Region North Western Australia. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, Report Series.
(1986) The Generation of Cultural Trauma: What are Anthropologists for?, Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1.
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