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).

“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

• 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