Research themes: Governance and public policy, Land and water
Current projects: Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory: Documenting and Preserving the Records and Memories, Engagement processes towards sustainable outcomes: consensus building, dialogue, decision-making, dispute management and informed consent, Indigenous Governance Building: mapping current and future research and practical resource needs
Position:
Senior Research Fellow, Indigenous Country and Governance, Governance and Public Policy.
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Toni Bauman is an anthropologist, mediator, facilitator and trainer who has published widely and made presentations to a range of national and international audiences.
She has over thirty years’ experience in Indigenous matters including land and native title claims, consensus building, agreement-making, decision-making and dispute management processes, co-management of protected areas, government policy, program evaluation, feasibility studies, and governance training. Toni was the chief investigator for the Indigenous Facilitation and Mediation Project at AIATSIS and acted as adviser to the Federal Court project that produced the publication Solid work you mob are doing: case studies in Indigenous dispute resolution and conflict management in Australia (Federal Court of Australia, 2009). In 2011, Toni was appointed as a Research Affiliate at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and as a visiting scholar at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona.
Current research focus
- Indigenous engagement, consensus-building, decision-making and dispute management processes.
- the governance of the co-management of protected areas.
Board Member
- Centre for Native Title Anthropology, Australian National University.
- Australian Native Title Services, University of Adelaide.
- Member, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, ACT.
- Fellow, Australian Anthropological Society.
- Member Editorial Board, Australian Indigenous Law Review.
Publications
Selected Publications (last 5 years)
- Bauman, T, Smith, S, Lenffer, A, Kelly, T, Carter, R & Harding, M 2015, ‘Traditional owner agreement-making in Victoria: the Right People for Country Program’, Australian Indigenous Law Review, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 78–98.
- Bauman, T, and Stacey, C (in Press), ‘Agreement-making and free, prior and informed consent in the Australian native title landscape’ in Crowl, L, Matbob, P and D'Arcy, P (eds.), ‘Pacific-Asian Partnerships in Resource Development’, Divine Word University Press, Madang.
- Bauman, T, Strelein, LM and Weir, JK (eds) (2013), Living with native title: the experiences of registered native title corporations, AIATSIS Research Publications, AIATSIS, Canberra.
- Bauman, T, Strelein, LM and Weir, JK ( 2013), ‘Navigating complexity: living with native title’, in Bauman, T, Strelein, LM and Weir, JK,Living with native title: the experiences of registered native title corporations, AIATSIS Research Publication, AIATSIS Canberra, pp. 1-26.
- Bauman, T (2013), ‘The Djabugay native title story: getting back in town’, in Bauman, T, Strelein, LM and Weir, JK, Living with native title: the experiences of registered native title corporations, AIATSIS Research Publication, AIATSIS Canberra, pp. 111-141.
- Bauman, T, Haynes, C and Lauder, G (2013), Pathways to the co-management of protected areas and native title in Australia, Discussion Paper, No. 32, AIATSIS Research Publications, May, AIATSIS, Canberra.
- Bauman, T and Glick, L (eds) (2012), The Limits of Change: Mabo and Native Title 20 Years On, AIATSIS Research Publications, AIATSIS, Canberra.
- Bauman, T and Macdonald, G (eds) 2011, Unsettling anthropology. The demands of native title on worn concepts and changing lives, AIATSIS, Canberra.
- Bauman, T and Macdonald, G 2011 ‘Concepts, hegemony, and analysis: Unsettling native title
- Anthropology’, in Bauman, T and Macdonald, G (eds), Unsettling anthropology. The demands of native title on worn concepts and changing lives, AIATSIS, Canberra, pp. 1-18.
- Martin, D, Bauman, T and Neale, J (2011), Challenges for Australian native title anthropology: practice beyond the proof of connection, Discussion Paper, No. 29, AIATSIS Research Publications, AIATSIS, Canberra.
- Bauman, T (ed) (2010), Dilemmas in applied Native Title anthropology, AIATSIS, Canberra.
- Bauman, T (2010), 'Dilemmas in applied Native title Anthropology: An Introduction' in Bauman, T (ed), Dilemmas in applied Native Title anthropology, AIATSIS, Canberra.
- Bauman, T (2010), 'Serendipity is not enough! State and Territory connection processes' in Bauman, T (ed), Dilemmas in applied Native Title anthropology, AIATSIS, Canberra.
- Bauman, T (2009), ‘Speaking across difference: towards an ‘intercultural’ mediation and peace building native title praxis in Australia’ in Bagshaw, D and Porter, E (eds), Mediation in the Asia Pacific, Transforming Conflict and Building Peace, Routledge, London and New York.
Selected publications (older than 5 years)
- Bauman, T and Pope, J (2008), Solid work you mob are doing: Case Studies in Indigenous Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management in Australia,Federal Court of Australia, Melbourne.
- Farrell, R, Catlin, J and Bauman, T, (2007), Getting Outcomes Sooner: report on a native title connection workshop Barossa Valley July 2007, National Native Title Tribunal and AIATSIS.
- Bauman, T and Tran, T (2007), First National Prescribed Bodies Corporate Meeting: Issues and Outcomes Canberra 11-13 April 2007, Native Title Research Report 3/2007, National Meeting of Prescribed Bodies Corporate, NTRU, AIATSIS, Canberra.
- Bauman, T (2007), Nitmiluk is not an island: Balancing interests in managing Nitmiluk National Park: A Case Study, AIATSIS in association with the Australian Collaboration and the Poola Foundation (Tom Kantor Fund), Canberra.
- Bauman, T and Smyth, D (2007), Indigenous Partnerships in Protected Area Management in Australia: Three case studies, AIATSIS in association with the Australian Collaboration and the Poola Foundation (Tom Kantor Fund), Canberra.
- Bauman, T (2006), Final Report of the Indigenous Facilitation and Mediation Project July 2003/04 – June 2006: research findings, recommendations and implementation, Indigenous Facilitation and Mediation Project Report, No. 6, NTRU, AIATSIS, Canberra.
- Bauman, T (2006), Aboriginal Darwin: A guide to important places in the past and in the present, Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, Canberra.
- Bauman, T (2006), 'Nations and tribes ‘Within’: Emerging Aboriginal ‘Nationalisms’ in Katherine', The Australian Journal of Anthropology 17(3):322-336.
- Sullivan, P and Bauman, T (eds) (2006), 'Delimiting Indigenous Cultures: Conceptual and Spatial Boundaries', The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Special Issue 18.
- Bauman, T (2006), 'Waiting for Mary: Process and Practice Issues in Negotiating Native Title Indigenous Decision-making and Dispute Management Frameworks', Land, Rights, Laws: Issues of Native Title 3(6):1-13, Issues paper, NTRU, AIATSIS, Canberra.
- Bauman, T and Kingham, F (2006), Native title mediation: issues identified, lessons learnt: proceedings and findings of IFaMP workshops with native title mediators February and March 2005, Report No. 5, NTRU, AIATSIS, Canberra.
- Bauman, T (2005), ‘Whose Benefits? Whose Rights? Negotiating rights and interests amongst native title parties’, Land, Rights, Laws: Issues of Native Title, Issues Paper, 3(2): 1-12, NTRU, AIATSIS, Canberra.
- Bauman, T and Williams, R (2005),The Business of Process: Research Issues in Managing Indigenous Decision-Making and Disputes in Land, Report No. 1, Indigenous Facilitation and Mediation Project, NTRU, AIATSIS, Canberra. (Formerly published as AIATSIS Research Discussion Paper No. 13).
- Indigenous Facilitation and Mediation Project and Capital Careers Pty Ltd. (2006), Finding Training Solutions in Indigenous Decision-Making and Dispute Management: A resource for Native Title Representative Bodies, NTRU, AIATSIS, Canberra.
- Part 1: Finding Training Solutions - a resource for native title representative bodies
- Part 2 :Finding Training Solutions - finding training providers
- Indigenous Facilitation and Mediation Project and Social Compass (2006), Evaluation Toolkit: Training and Service Delivery in Decision-Making and Dispute Management Processes in Native Title, NTRU, AIATSIS, Canberra.
- Kingham, F, Bauman, T and Black, M (2005), Report on Proceedings of Workshop of Native Title Mediators 15 and 16 March 2005, Indigenous Facilitation and Mediation Project, NTRU, AIATSIS, Canberra.
- Bauman, T and Williams, R (2004), Report on Native Title Representative Body Workshops: Directions, Priorities and Challenges, Indigenous Facilitation and Mediation Project, Report No. 2, NTRU, AIATSIS, Canberra.
- Bauman, T (2002), 'Test 'im blood': Subsections and shame in Katherine’, Anthropological Forum 12(2): 205-20.
- Bauman, T (2001), Shifting Sands: Towards an Anthropological Praxis, Oceania 71(3):202-25.