Ciaran O’faircheallaigh
Biographic Data
| ID | 454739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ciaran O’faircheallaigh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ciaran |
| FAMILY NAME | O’faircheallaigh |
| SIGNATURE | O’FAIRCHEALLAIGH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9986-8325 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 448 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Large-scale renewable energy developments on the Indigenous Estate
The transition to renewable energy in Australia represents a significant opportunity for First Nations communities to benefit from developments on their land. In partnership with the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation and the First Nations Clean Energy Network, the authors conducted research exploring this opportunity, with a specific focus on the barriers preventing First Nations from achieving these benefits and what different groups of actors…
Developing international guidance to make impact assessment follow-up happen – reflections on an interactive design process
To advance impact assessment (IA) practice worldwide the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) has long promoted and published a series of international best practice principles, including the recently revised best practice principles for IA follow-up. IA follow-up refers to any kind of undertaking that seeks to ‘understand the outcomes of projects or plans’ that have been subject to IA. To support the implementation of these pri…
Negotiated Agreements and Sámi Reindeer Herding in Sweden
In the European north, there is a growing trend for Smi reindeer herding communities to enter negotiated agreements with developers on projects that aim to exploit land and natural resources.This paper offers, for the first time, an evaluation of the content of a selection of these agreements, drawing on a sample of 15 agreements from five communities in Sweden.The evaluation was conducted from a Smi perspective on how the agreements affect the a…
Negotiated Agreements, Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industry in the Salar de Atacama, Chile
While acknowledging advances in legal recognition of Indigenous rights, much of the research literature positions negotiated agreements between Indigenous peoples and corporations simply as 'neoliberal technology' that gives the appearance of Indigenous consent while allowing exploitation to continue. This analysis is flawed in considering agreements as discrete, stand-alone phenomena. It ignores the possibility that Indigenous peoples may use ag…
Mining Country
"Mining Country: A History of Canada’s Mines and Miners. John Sandlos and Arn Keeling." Canadian Historical Review, 103(4), pp. 633–634
Ignorance as strategy
Bureaucratic Representation, Accountability, and Democracy
Using a qualitative study of Indigenous public servants in Canada and Australia, this article helps open the “black box” of bureaucratic representation. Findings dispel any idea that active representation is unproblematic for minority bureaucrats themselves. In fact, it exacts a high price with respect to working in isolation, confronting racism, facing formidable obstacles to pursue, or challenge policy processes and outcomes aligned with the in…
Impact and benefit agreements as monitoring instruments in the minerals and energy industries
Leading from Between
Using revenues from Indigenous impact and benefit agreements
Mining agreements with potentially significant revenues for Aboriginal communities in Canada and Australia have recently proliferated. Case studies have documented the impact of revenues from such agreements, but broader theoretical work and systematic analysis of variables determining positive outcomes – which could support informed choices about the use and management of mineral revenues – have been lacking. Using existing research on Indigenou…
Designated areas’ and the regulation of artisanal and small-scale mining
Shaping projects, shaping impacts
Large-scale mineral extraction is often accompanied by local conflicts, reflecting the fact that affected communities feel the costs of development but enjoy few of its benefits. Much of this conflict could be mitigated if communities could influence the design of projects and of management systems intended to minimise their impacts. This paper examines the potential role of community-controlled impact assessment, combined with negotiation of bin…
Understanding and improving policy and regulatory responses to artisanal and small scale mining
Negotiations in the Indigenous World
Negotiated agreements play a critical role in setting the conditions under which resource development occurs on Indigenous land. Our understanding of what determines the outcomes of negotiations between Indigenous peoples and commercial interests is very limited. With over two decades experience with Indigenous organisations and communities, Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh's book offers the first systematic analysis of agreement outcomes and the factors …
IR theory and domestic adoption of international norms
Women's absence, women's power
This article documents the agency of indigenous women in negotiations surrounding major resource projects on indigenous lands. The dominant view in the academic and activist literature is that indigenous women are excluded from negotiations, which helps explain their failure to share in project benefits. The author's experience as a negotiator for indigenous communities in Australia and his research in Canada reveals a different picture, indicati…
Community development agreements in the mining industry
Agreements between commercial developers and local communities are becoming more common in virtually all parts of the world, from inner city America to remote mining regions. The need for such “community development agreements” (CDAs) is especially acute in mining, where environmental and social costs are often borne by communities while project benefits accrue in national capitals and global financial centres, leading to conflict between local p…
Extractive industries and Indigenous peoples
International Recognition of Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Control of Development and Domestic Political Mobilisation
Indigenous peoples have recently achieved increased recognition of Indigenous rights in international declarations and conventions, and national legislation. This increased recognition does not itself allow Indigenous peoples to achieve one of their central objectives, control over development which affects them or their ancestral lands. State authorities often ignore international legal instruments and domestic legislation in dealing with major …
Aboriginal-Mining Company Contractual Agreements in Australia and Canada
The negotiation of contractual agreements between Aboriginal communities and mining companies is now standard practice in Australia and Canada and increasingly common in developing countries. The widespread use of such agreements indicates that they offer significant economic and social opportunities. However, such agreements also raise major issues for Aboriginal relations with other political actors and institutions, including government, envir…
Public participation and environmental impact assessment
Effectiveness in social impact assessment
Definitions of and judgments regarding effectiveness in social impact assessment (SIA) depend on how the purposes of SIA are understood. They are defined differently by various interests that participate in, or are affected by, impact assessment processes, and the concept of ‘effectiveness’ and the issue of what is required to achieve it are both contested and contextual. This article reviews a number of different approaches to SIA and outlines w…
Negotiating Cultural Heritage? Aboriginal-Mining Company Agreements in Australia
Mining and other forms of industrial development can result in profound and often irreversible damage to the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples. Fear of such damage regularly results in indigenous opposition to development and, in many cases, to delays in construction of development projects or even to their abandonment. Government legislation has generally proved ineffective in protecting indigenous heritage. An alternative means of achievi…
Environmental agreements, EIA follow-up and aboriginal participation in environmental management
Aborigines, mining companies and the state in contemporary Australia
Since the early 1990s major changes have occurred in the legal, policy and institutional context within which mineral development occurs on Aboriginal land in Australia. This article assesses whether these changes have substantially enhanced the capacity of Aboriginal people to control mining and share in its benefits. It examines, in turn, the major actors involved in mineral development in Australia, the policy positions they are adopting and t…
Public participation and environmental impact assessment
Extractive industries and Indigenous peoples
Negotiating Cultural Heritage? Aboriginal-Mining Company Agreements in Australia
Mining and other forms of industrial development can result in profound and often irreversible damage to the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples. Fear of such damage regularly results in indigenous opposition to development and, in many cases, to delays in construction of development projects or even to their abandonment. Government legislation has generally proved ineffective in protecting indigenous heritage. An alternative means of achievi…
Community development agreements in the mining industry
Agreements between commercial developers and local communities are becoming more common in virtually all parts of the world, from inner city America to remote mining regions. The need for such “community development agreements” (CDAs) is especially acute in mining, where environmental and social costs are often borne by communities while project benefits accrue in national capitals and global financial centres, leading to conflict between local p…
Aborigines, mining companies and the state in contemporary Australia
Since the early 1990s major changes have occurred in the legal, policy and institutional context within which mineral development occurs on Aboriginal land in Australia. This article assesses whether these changes have substantially enhanced the capacity of Aboriginal people to control mining and share in its benefits. It examines, in turn, the major actors involved in mineral development in Australia, the policy positions they are adopting and t…
International Recognition of Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Control of Development and Domestic Political Mobilisation
Indigenous peoples have recently achieved increased recognition of Indigenous rights in international declarations and conventions, and national legislation. This increased recognition does not itself allow Indigenous peoples to achieve one of their central objectives, control over development which affects them or their ancestral lands. State authorities often ignore international legal instruments and domestic legislation in dealing with major …
Environmental agreements, EIA follow-up and aboriginal participation in environmental management
Making Social Impact Assessment Count
In the past, indigenous people have often been entirely excluded from social impact assessments (SIAs) of projects or activities that affect them, or have faced major financial and cultural barriers in participating effectively and in having their perspectives accepted as legitimate. More recently, indigenous groups have achieved greater success in influencing SIA, but a fundamental problem remains. Their enhanced input into SIA has generally not…
Women's absence, women's power
This article documents the agency of indigenous women in negotiations surrounding major resource projects on indigenous lands. The dominant view in the academic and activist literature is that indigenous women are excluded from negotiations, which helps explain their failure to share in project benefits. The author's experience as a negotiator for indigenous communities in Australia and his research in Canada reveals a different picture, indicati…
Indigenous participation in environmental management of mining projects
The principle that indigenous people should participate in the environmental management of resource projects on their traditional lands is increasingly recognised by international law and institutions. Negotiation of agreements between indigenous groups and resource developers represents one way in which that principle can be given effect. However, virtually nothing is known about the environmental provisions of negotiated agreements or their eff…
Bureaucratic Representation, Accountability, and Democracy
Using a qualitative study of Indigenous public servants in Canada and Australia, this article helps open the “black box” of bureaucratic representation. Findings dispel any idea that active representation is unproblematic for minority bureaucrats themselves. In fact, it exacts a high price with respect to working in isolation, confronting racism, facing formidable obstacles to pursue, or challenge policy processes and outcomes aligned with the in…
Shaping projects, shaping impacts
Large-scale mineral extraction is often accompanied by local conflicts, reflecting the fact that affected communities feel the costs of development but enjoy few of its benefits. Much of this conflict could be mitigated if communities could influence the design of projects and of management systems intended to minimise their impacts. This paper examines the potential role of community-controlled impact assessment, combined with negotiation of bin…
Aboriginal-Mining Company Contractual Agreements in Australia and Canada
The negotiation of contractual agreements between Aboriginal communities and mining companies is now standard practice in Australia and Canada and increasingly common in developing countries. The widespread use of such agreements indicates that they offer significant economic and social opportunities. However, such agreements also raise major issues for Aboriginal relations with other political actors and institutions, including government, envir…
Negotiations in the Indigenous World
Negotiated agreements play a critical role in setting the conditions under which resource development occurs on Indigenous land. Our understanding of what determines the outcomes of negotiations between Indigenous peoples and commercial interests is very limited. With over two decades experience with Indigenous organisations and communities, Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh's book offers the first systematic analysis of agreement outcomes and the factors …
Denying Citizens Their Rights? Indigenous People, Mining Payments and Service Provision
Indigenous Australians have a growing capacity to extract monetary payments from mineral development on their traditional lands. Considerable controversy surrounds the possible use of these payments to fund services such as health, housing and education for the Indigenous groups concerned. Critics of such an approach argue that government should provide basic public services to all citizens, and that use of ‘mining payments’ for service provision…
Resource development and inequality in indigenous societies
Designated areas’ and the regulation of artisanal and small-scale mining
Ignorance as strategy
Understanding and improving policy and regulatory responses to artisanal and small scale mining
Impact and benefit agreements as monitoring instruments in the minerals and energy industries
Using revenues from Indigenous impact and benefit agreements
Mining agreements with potentially significant revenues for Aboriginal communities in Canada and Australia have recently proliferated. Case studies have documented the impact of revenues from such agreements, but broader theoretical work and systematic analysis of variables determining positive outcomes – which could support informed choices about the use and management of mineral revenues – have been lacking. Using existing research on Indigenou…
Large-scale renewable energy developments on the Indigenous Estate
The transition to renewable energy in Australia represents a significant opportunity for First Nations communities to benefit from developments on their land. In partnership with the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation and the First Nations Clean Energy Network, the authors conducted research exploring this opportunity, with a specific focus on the barriers preventing First Nations from achieving these benefits and what different groups of actors…
Negotiated Agreements and Sámi Reindeer Herding in Sweden
In the European north, there is a growing trend for Smi reindeer herding communities to enter negotiated agreements with developers on projects that aim to exploit land and natural resources.This paper offers, for the first time, an evaluation of the content of a selection of these agreements, drawing on a sample of 15 agreements from five communities in Sweden.The evaluation was conducted from a Smi perspective on how the agreements affect the a…
Negotiated Agreements, Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industry in the Salar de Atacama, Chile
While acknowledging advances in legal recognition of Indigenous rights, much of the research literature positions negotiated agreements between Indigenous peoples and corporations simply as 'neoliberal technology' that gives the appearance of Indigenous consent while allowing exploitation to continue. This analysis is flawed in considering agreements as discrete, stand-alone phenomena. It ignores the possibility that Indigenous peoples may use ag…
IR theory and domestic adoption of international norms
Book Notes
Michael Ghertman and Margaret Allen, An Introduction to the Multinationals, London, Mac‐millan, for the Institute for Research and Information on Multinationals, Geneva, 1984, pp.143. $11.95 (paper). June M. Hearn and W.A. Howard, Australian Industrial Relations: Case Studies, South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1984, pp.vi, 136. $12.95 (paper) Felix Guattari, Molecular Revolution: Psychiatry and Politics, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1984, pp.308. $10.95 (pa…
Australian liberalism and corporatism
George Brandis, Tom Harley and Don Markwell (eds), Liberals face the Future: Essays on Australian Liberalism, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 386, $14.99 (paper) and Katharine West, The Revolution in Australian Politics, Melbourne, Penguin Books, 1984, pp. 116, $4.95 (paper). John Rickard, H.B. Higgins: the rebel as judge. Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1984, pp.350. $29.95 (cloth). Stuart Macintyre, Militant: the life and times of Paddy Tr…
Mineral Taxation in Less Developed Countries
In taxing their mining industries most Less Developed Countries must balance their need for mineral revenues with their requirement for continued private Investment in exploration and development. Papua New Guinea has attempted to achieve such a balance. An ideal system would use a Resource Rent Tax. Papua New Guinea accepted its underlying principle but combined it with royalties, a. flat profits tax, a dividend withholding tax and an additional…
Mineral Taxation, Mineral Revenues and Mine Investment in Zambia, 1964-83
The relationship between mineral taxation, mineral revenues, and investment in existing and new mine capacity in Zambia during 1964-83 is examined. By the mid-1970s the Zambian copper industry was incapable of producing investible surpluses which could be appropriated by government partly because of unfavorable movements in real market prices for mining inputs and mineral output, partly because the mineral taxation systems applied since 1964 had …
The Bougainville Crisis
Long Distance Commuting in Resource Industries
During the last fifteen years a fundamental change has occurred in the settlement patterns associated with resource projects in remote regions of Australia and Canada. The earlier practice of establishing new mine townships has virtually ceased. Most new projects rely on a
Resource development and inequality in indigenous societies
Making Social Impact Assessment Count
In the past, indigenous people have often been entirely excluded from social impact assessments (SIAs) of projects or activities that affect them, or have faced major financial and cultural barriers in participating effectively and in having their perspectives accepted as legitimate. More recently, indigenous groups have achieved greater success in influencing SIA, but a fundamental problem remains. Their enhanced input into SIA has generally not…
Papua New Guinea
Denying Citizens Their Rights? Indigenous People, Mining Payments and Service Provision
Indigenous Australians have a growing capacity to extract monetary payments from mineral development on their traditional lands. Considerable controversy surrounds the possible use of these payments to fund services such as health, housing and education for the Indigenous groups concerned. Critics of such an approach argue that government should provide basic public services to all citizens, and that use of ‘mining payments’ for service provision…
Indigenous participation in environmental management of mining projects
The principle that indigenous people should participate in the environmental management of resource projects on their traditional lands is increasingly recognised by international law and institutions. Negotiation of agreements between indigenous groups and resource developers represents one way in which that principle can be given effect. However, virtually nothing is known about the environmental provisions of negotiated agreements or their eff…
Aborigines, mining companies and the state in contemporary Australia
Since the early 1990s major changes have occurred in the legal, policy and institutional context within which mineral development occurs on Aboriginal land in Australia. This article assesses whether these changes have substantially enhanced the capacity of Aboriginal people to control mining and share in its benefits. It examines, in turn, the major actors involved in mineral development in Australia, the policy positions they are adopting and t…
Environmental agreements, EIA follow-up and aboriginal participation in environmental management
Negotiating Cultural Heritage? Aboriginal-Mining Company Agreements in Australia
Mining and other forms of industrial development can result in profound and often irreversible damage to the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples. Fear of such damage regularly results in indigenous opposition to development and, in many cases, to delays in construction of development projects or even to their abandonment. Government legislation has generally proved ineffective in protecting indigenous heritage. An alternative means of achievi…
Effectiveness in social impact assessment
Definitions of and judgments regarding effectiveness in social impact assessment (SIA) depend on how the purposes of SIA are understood. They are defined differently by various interests that participate in, or are affected by, impact assessment processes, and the concept of ‘effectiveness’ and the issue of what is required to achieve it are both contested and contextual. This article reviews a number of different approaches to SIA and outlines w…
Aboriginal-Mining Company Contractual Agreements in Australia and Canada
The negotiation of contractual agreements between Aboriginal communities and mining companies is now standard practice in Australia and Canada and increasingly common in developing countries. The widespread use of such agreements indicates that they offer significant economic and social opportunities. However, such agreements also raise major issues for Aboriginal relations with other political actors and institutions, including government, envir…
Public participation and environmental impact assessment
Community development agreements in the mining industry
Agreements between commercial developers and local communities are becoming more common in virtually all parts of the world, from inner city America to remote mining regions. The need for such “community development agreements” (CDAs) is especially acute in mining, where environmental and social costs are often borne by communities while project benefits accrue in national capitals and global financial centres, leading to conflict between local p…
Extractive industries and Indigenous peoples
International Recognition of Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Control of Development and Domestic Political Mobilisation
Indigenous peoples have recently achieved increased recognition of Indigenous rights in international declarations and conventions, and national legislation. This increased recognition does not itself allow Indigenous peoples to achieve one of their central objectives, control over development which affects them or their ancestral lands. State authorities often ignore international legal instruments and domestic legislation in dealing with major …
IR theory and domestic adoption of international norms
Women's absence, women's power
This article documents the agency of indigenous women in negotiations surrounding major resource projects on indigenous lands. The dominant view in the academic and activist literature is that indigenous women are excluded from negotiations, which helps explain their failure to share in project benefits. The author's experience as a negotiator for indigenous communities in Australia and his research in Canada reveals a different picture, indicati…
Negotiations in the Indigenous World
Negotiated agreements play a critical role in setting the conditions under which resource development occurs on Indigenous land. Our understanding of what determines the outcomes of negotiations between Indigenous peoples and commercial interests is very limited. With over two decades experience with Indigenous organisations and communities, Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh's book offers the first systematic analysis of agreement outcomes and the factors …
Understanding and improving policy and regulatory responses to artisanal and small scale mining
Designated areas’ and the regulation of artisanal and small-scale mining
Political science (27 works) · Mining and Resource Management (23 works) · Economics (21 works) · Law (19 works) · Business (18 works) · Law (16 works) · Indigenous (14 works) · Geography (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Ecology (11 works)