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 Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations



Introduction: Uncertainty and the Surface



Chapter 1. Ecologies of Advanced Extractivism: A Material Politics of Relations

Chapter 2. Tilopozo: Ecological History and Extractivist Enigma

Chapter 3. The Labour and Logic of Good Water

Chapter 4. Agreements, ‘Development Benefits’ and Their Moral Economies

Chapter 5. Good Work and ‘Shared Benefits’

Chapter 6. Making Relations: Intentional Intimacies of Advanced Extractivsm

Chapter 7. The Overburden of Participation



Conclusion



References

Index