Debal SinghaRoy is Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. As a recipient of an Australian Government Endeavour Fellowship, 2010, Professor SinghaRoy is a Visiting Scholar with the Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre. His research undertaken as an Endeavour Fellow is on the theme of Environmental Movements and the Indigenous People in Australia: Dynamics of Participation and Integration. Professor SinghaRoy has researched extensively in the areas of social movements, agrarian studies, social development, marginalisation, social exclusion, sociology of distance education and knowledge society.This paper aims to examine the process of integration of environmental issues in the indigenous movements in of Australia. Based on selected case studies on acquisition and protection of land and natural resources it examines the process of articulating/rejuvenating collective indigenous identities at the grass roots that negotiate with culture, environment and sustainable livelihood. Locating the process of marginalization of the indigenous people and their movement within the wider socio-historical context it also examines the response of the state and the civil society towards environmental issues in general and the indigenous movements in particular
