Symposium: Extractive industries and the protection and preservation of Indigenous heritage.

Symposium

Extractive industries and the protection and preservation of Indigenous heritage. Exploring collaborative and comparative perspectives and strategies

The preservation and continuation of Indigenous heritage remain significant challenges within a period that is increasingly characterised by national and international fragmentation, economic insecurities, and irreversible environmental degradation. The work to protect Indigenous heritage is also made more difficult by legislative and political environments that continue to favour economic development and extractive resource exploitation. In this respect, events, approaches, and engagements in Australia are reflections of wider and interrelated structures and processes that continue in myriad ways across the Global South and beyond. This one-day symposium will bring together national and international experts and practitioners and Aboriginal Traditional Owners to exchange their views and experiences, to discuss case studies, and strategies for reconciliation and remediation, and how positive outcomes can be achieved for all involved parties in a rapidly changing world. For this occasion, we have the privilege to be able to engage with Mélanie Duval and Marie Forget from Savoie Mont Blanc University, France, who are visiting UWA and who have extensive experience in working on the above issues in Europe, Africa and South America.

Host: Associate Professor Martin Porr, Archaeology/Centre for Rock Art Research + Management, School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia

Program

8:30 – 9:00      Introduction and Welcome to Country

9:00-10:00       Associate Professor Marie Forget, EDYTEM - CNRS - Savoie Mont Blanc University, France - The Land, the Brine and the Law: Andean Indigenous Communities in Extractive Frontiers

10:00-11:00    Dr Mélanie Duval, EDYTEM - CNRS - Savoie Mont Blanc University, France - Copying, Preserving, Replacing? The Stakes of Replicas in Heritage Sites

11:00-11:30    Morning Tea

11:30-12:30    Terry Drage, Toni Akuila - Pinikura, PKKP; Burchell Hayes, Merle Ashburton - Puutu Kunti Kurrama, PKKP - Extractive industries and the protection and preservation of Indigenous heritage. Exploring collaborative and comparative perspectives and strategies

12.30-1330     Lunch

1330-1400       Dr Joe Dortch, Principal Archaeologist, Dortch Cuthbert/Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Archaeology, The University of Western Australia - Protecting what matters – Lessons from Cultural Heritage Management in south-western Australia and the Pilbara

1400-1430       Associate Professor Sven Ouzman, Archaeology/Centre for Rock Art Research + Management, The University of Western Australia (Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council) - Fracking, Water Extraction and Tourism along Martuwarra River Of Life, Western Australia’s longest registered heritage site and Ancestral being

1430-1500       Professor Richard Vokes, Anthropology, The University of Western Australia - Anthropology for Heritage Work in Western Australia

1500-1530       Afternoon Tea

1530-1600       Professor Erika Techera, Law School, The University of Western Australia - Balancing Extraction and Preservation: An SDGs Lens

1600-1630       Dr Gretchen Stolte & Lucy Hancock, Anthropology, The University of Western Australia - Anthropology and Collaborative Activism

1630-1700       Concluding discussion