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Groundwater Politics

Advanced Extractivism and Slow Resistance

Sally Babidge (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

278 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-882-0 (ISBN)

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The mining industry is an expanding socio-ecological and political problem worldwide, not least in Atacameño-Likanantay (Indigenous) territories in the hyper-arid Salar de Atacama, Chile. Groundwater Politics addresses the social, technical and political conditions it calls ‘advanced extractivism’ to reveal how groundwater extraction sustains both ecological damage and mining economies. It richly describes the area's copper and lithium industries as historically linked with Indigenous communities and their ecological and economic futures. Based on over a decade of ethnographic research, the book casts community strategies to control water and territory as 'slow resistance’, the structural and multifaceted practices that generate a material future amid potential resource exhaustion.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2025
Reihe/Serie	Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Bergbau
ISBN-10	1-80539-882-2 / 1805398822
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-882-0 / 9781805398820
Zustand	Neuware