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43
Citations
7606
World Ranking
4433
National Ranking
316

Overview

Jon Altman is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on Social Sciences, Health Professions, and Engineering. Within these areas, their work touches on subfields such as General Health Professions, Health, Building and Construction, Finance, and Soil Science.

Their research topics reflect a focus on the intersection of Indigenous issues, health, and resource management. Key topics include:

  • Mining and Resource Management
  • Indigenous Studies and Ecology
  • Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Community Development and Social Impact
  • Land Rights and Reforms

Their recent publications illustrate engagement with Indigenous and social issues, including:

  • "Roadmap to recovery: Reporting on a research taskforce supporting Indigenous responses to COVID-19 in Australia," 2020, Australian Journal of Social Issues
  • "No ordinary company: Arnhem Land Fire Abatement (Northern Territory) Limited," 2020, Postcolonial Studies
  • "Linking Indigenous Communities with Regional Development: Australia Overview," 2020, ANU Open Research (Australian National University)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jon Altman include:

  • Nikki Moodie
  • James Ward
  • Pat Dudgeon
  • Karen Adams
  • Dawn Casey

The scientist publishes regularly in venues focused on social and postcolonial studies, with recent articles appearing in:

  • Australian Journal of Social Issues
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • ANU Open Research (Australian National University)

Jon Altman's research integrates topics of Indigenous rights and health with broader societal and environmental concerns such as mining, resource management, and community development. The combination of Social Sciences and Health Professions disciplines in their work reflects a multidisciplinary approach addressing both social impact and health disparities.

Best Publications

  • Beyond "The Original Affluent Society": A Culturalist Reformulation [and Comments and Reply]

    Nurit Bird-David;Allen Abramson;Jon Altman;M. G. Bicchieri

  • Coercive reconciliation : stabilise, normalise, exit aboriginal Australia

    Jon C. Altman;Melinda Hinkson

  • Why Hunter-Gatherers Work: An Ancient Version of the Problem of Public Goods [and Comments and Reply]

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  • Sustainable development options on Aboriginal land: the hybrid economy in the twenty-first century

    Jon C. Altman

  • beyond Closing the Gap: Valuing Diversity in Indigenous Australia

    Jon Altman

  • The environmental significance of the Indigenous estate: Natural resource management as economic development in remote Australia

    Jon Altman;L Larsen;G Buchanan

  • The economic status of Australian aborigines

    Jon C. Altman;John Nieuwenhuysen

  • Hunter-Gatherers Today: An Aboriginal Economy in North Australia.

    Robert Layton;J. C. Altman

  • People on Country, Vital Landscapes, Indigenous Futures

    Jon C. Altman;Sean Kerins

  • Tourism dilemmas for aboriginal Australians

    Jon Altman

  • Economic development and Indigenous Australia: contestations over property, institutions and ideology*

    Jon C. Altman

  • Aborigines, tourism, and sustainable development

    Jon Altman;Julie Finlayson

  • The economic status of Indigenous Australians

    Jon C. Altman

  • What future for remote Indigenous Australia? Economic hybridity and the neoliberal turn

    Jon Altman

  • Observing the Economy

    Gregory Knapp;C. A. Gregory;J. C. Altman

  • Culture Crisis: Anthropology and Politics in Aboriginal Australia

    Jon C. Altman;Melinda Hickson

  • People on country, healthy landscapes and sustainable Indigenous economic futures: The Arnhem Land case

    Jon Altman

  • Aborigines, tourism, and development: The Northern Territory experience

    Jon C. Altman

  • From exclusion to dependence: Aborigines and the welfare state in Australia

    Jon Altman;Will Sanders

  • how Realistic are the Prospects for 'Closing the Gaps' in Socioeconomic Outcomes for Indigenous Australians?

    Jon Altman;Nicholas Biddle;Boyd Hunter

  • Coercive Reconciliation. Stabilise, Normalise, Exit Aboriginal Australia [Altman, Jon and Hinkson, Melinda (eds) (2007). Comments by the editors and by Behrendt, Larissa and Watson, Nicole at the book's Canberra launch with a review by Jonas, Bill.]

    Larissa Behrendt;Nicole Watson;Melinda Hinkson;William Jonas

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