Safety & Risk in Professional Native Title (Anthropology)

Introduction

The Safety & Risk in Professional Native Title (Anthropology) working group is a volunteer-based, practitioner-led initiative that independently supports the professional development efforts of the Centre for Native Title Anthropology. SRPNT(A) is focussed on fostering safe working practices among social anthropologists in native title and related professional practice settings, and in supporting the development and maintenance of safe workplaces.

Who We Are

SRPNT(A) draws on the voluntary contributions of social anthropologists working in native title and related professional practice settings. We share an awareness and understanding of the specific factors that make native title anthropology and other areas of professional social anthropological practice both rewarding and challenging. We share multiple decades’ experience across a arrange of native title and related sectors, including with community-controlled NGOs, government, business, and academia.

Through this cumulative experience, we have developed a familiarity with, and concern for, distinctive safety and risk factors that practitioners experience on a day-to-day basis in urban, regional, and remote workplace settings. Crucially, we recognise and understand that one of these factors is systematic and ongoing intergenerational trauma among native title claimants and native title holders living with recent experiences of invasion and colonisation.

Contacts

Objective and Approach

The objective of SRPNT(A) is to foster physical and psychological safety and risk mitigation in relevant professional practice settings. To achieve this objective, the SRPNT(A) webpage offers regularly updated links to information, professional development opportunities, support services, and related resources that contributors consider helpful. As part of this ongoing program of work, SRPNT(A) engages in one-on-one and collective discussion with practitioners. Practitioners can contact SRPNTA(A) by emailing the CNTA.

Waiver

Material contained and/or linked on the SRPNT(A) webpage is collated from the experiences and recommendations of individuals working in native title and related sectors and does not reflect the views of the Centre for Native Title Anthropology (‘CNTA’) or associated entities. Information provided through this page, via links or personal contacts should be considered as general in nature and does not constitute medical or legal advice. The CNTA and contributors to this page urge you to seek medical or legal advice specific to your circumstances.