Groundwater Politics

Sally Babidge is an Associate Professor of anthropology at the University of Queensland, Australia. Some of her publications include Aboriginal Family and the State: The Conditions of History Ashgate 2010), and with P. Dallachy and V. Alberts, Written True, not Gammon! Histories of Aboriginal Charters Towers (Black Ink 2007).

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Uncertainty and the SurfaceChapter 1. Ecologies of Advanced Extractivism: A Material Politics of RelationsChapter 2. Tilopozo: Ecological History and Extractivist EnigmaChapter 3. The Labour and Logic of Good WaterChapter 4. Agreements, ‘Development Benefits’ and Their Moral EconomiesChapter 5. Good Work and ‘Shared Benefits’Chapter 6. Making Relations: Intentional Intimacies of Advanced ExtractivsmChapter 7. The Overburden of ParticipationConclusionReferencesIndex

“This book is timely and sophisticated. It is one of only a few social science or humanities studies of groundwaters and depletion, which is a pressing global problem.” • Casey Walsh, University of California, Santa Barbara“This book is ethnographically rich, develops a strong line of analysis that adds to the current work in the field, and addresses a well-recognized and important topic.” • Josiah Heyman, University of Texas, El Paso