Babidge
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 12475 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Babidge |
| SOBRENOME | Babidge |
| ASSINATURA | BABIDGE |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3877-5509 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Epistemically resistant, unruly and relational
This article engages with the dynamics of groundwater’s epistemic resistance, its persistent resistance to being a fact, and manifold uncertainties in the human and more-than-human relations of the Salar de Atacama. How might expanded considerations of groundwater’s unruliness better inform knowledge of it and future relations with it? I draw on legal cases that illustrate entrenched problems with mining company and regulatory groundwater science…
Entrepreneurial Becomings
In the context of global economic and political crises, microentrepreneurship enjoys popularity both as a solution to poverty and as an empowering lifestyle based on values of independence and flexibility. While education, training, and engagement in entrepreneurship may have significant effects on self‐making, social and economic change from entrepreneurial formation remains ambivalent. In this introductory essay, we set out how becoming an entr…
Anthropology as Vocation
Undocumented
Archives make historical presence and absence concrete.When tangible evidence is required to prove historical injustices and facilitate reparations, an ethnographic approach for reading archival records can uncover stories and traces of people and situations that, at a glance, seem hidden beneath the ink.This is the case for the many First Nations Australian women and girls who worked as domestic servants on Queensland pastoral stations; the docu…
Affective propositions, the plant turn, and critiques of development
Lithium extractivism
The ‘Green economy’, a central plank of the sustainable development political and economic international agenda, relies on industrial extraction of water, minerals and other earths to produce ‘green energy’ to feed capitalist growth. The term Green extractivism describes a global problem that we examine through the case of lithium extraction in the territory of Atacameño-Likanantay (Indigenous) peoples in the Salar de Atacama, Chile. Green extrac…
Negotiated Agreements, Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industry in the Salar de Atacama, Chile
While acknowledging advances in legal recognition of Indigenous rights, much of the research literature positions negotiated agreements between Indigenous peoples and corporations simply as 'neoliberal technology' that gives the appearance of Indigenous consent while allowing exploitation to continue. This analysis is flawed in considering agreements as discrete, stand-alone phenomena. It ignores the possibility that Indigenous peoples may use ag…
Water Futures in Australia
This special issue is part of a shift in social science and humanities thinking and in public awareness towards planetary water concerns. As societal and scholarly attention to the wet element - and its political import and its cultural constitution - is growing, we ask, how can we rethink our relationships with water in Australia now and into the future? The collection of papers in this issue shows that water responds to human practices which in…
Water Ownership and Governance
Water governance refers to the material and regulatory control of water and waters. It involves questions such as who makes decisions about water and how; at what scale such decisions are made in relation to different waters; and who and which water or ecosystem benefits. Classical work in anthropology considered how irrigation practices may have given rise to the development of state forms, and in response to early-21st-century privatization reg…
Seeing water
This article reflects on ten years of ethnographic work investigating concerns about mining industry-produced environmental and social change in hyperarid territories experiencing long-term drought. The ecological and social effects of groundwater extraction by the copper and lithium mining industry in the southern Salar de Atacama are not immediately detectable, since water, the saltpan, and the desert provide few clues, and the political and ec…
That's the problem with that lake; it changes sides
Multiple dynamics produce the ecological present. For the past 30 years or more, in the southern Atacama salt pan (Salar) in northern Chile, extractive industries have been accumulating minerals and water in exhaustive quantities, taking ever more than may be regenerated. However, the exhaustion of the Salar de Atacama involves a more complex set of symptoms than demonstrable environmental depletion. Fragmented scientific knowledge of the salt pa…
Sustaining ignorance
The extraction of groundwater and the regulation of its use in many parts of the world have been found to present a particular kind of problem. A contest involving mining companies, an 'impacted' community, and the state arising from groundwater and its extraction in the Salar de Atacama, northern Chile, provides a stark example. What marks the case are the many uncertainties about underground water and the quantities extracted. This article argu…
Neoextractivism and Indigenous Water Ritual in Salar de Atacama, Chile
Latin American governments are neoextractivist: they promote exploitation of natural resources as central to economic development while acting to mitigate some of the excesses of extractive activity. In the space left open by the neoliberal state in the Salar de Atacama in northern Chile, the mining industry creates its own regulatory mechanisms and provides infrastructure and "improvement" projects to indigenous communities. While these projects…
Failing forward
Neoliberalism's failings as a social order are a commonplace in the critical social sciences, and lately such critique has even been ventured from within the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. How has such a problematic form of capitalism both sustained criticism and flourished? Chilean neoliberalism might tell us something of how neoliberal forms weather critique to sustain elite power and significant social inequality, that is, how…
State Theory and Andean Politics
Ritualidad Y Extractivismo
In the context of progressive privatization of water since the military regime in Chile and beginning with the Water Code of 1981, we analyze water disputes among Atacameo communities of the Salar de Atacama and mining corporations whom they confront and also negotiate value and meanings. From an ethnographic perspective as well as taking up material from political ecology, the anthropology of nature, and recent work on extractivism, we observe t…
Contested value and an ethics of resources
The question of value is fundamental to contexts of resource scarcity given that contest over use and distribution of scarce resources centres on judgments about rights, interests and access. In mining processes, the use and extraction of water in great volumes commodifies and threatens supplies of what others understand to be a substance essential to all forms of life. In the Atacama, while industrial extraction and commodification by the mining…
Where the river ends
"The problem with "transparency
Subterranean waters in the mineral-rich and water-poor Atacama desert, northern Chile, are subject to contest between resource-extracting companies and mostly indigenous residents. In complying with global Corporate Social Responsibility standards and local agreements, and in an effort to reduce opposition from indigenous groups, some mining companies have begun to undertake "transparency" reporting regarding the impact of their subterranean wate…
Socios
En 2007, una comunidad atacameña del norte de Chile y una empresa multinacional minera de cobre renovaron un trato de diez años con respecto al uso del territorio por parte de la empresa y el impacto causado debido a la extracción de recursos de agua subterránea. Las negociaciones entre la comunidad atacameña y la empresa minera están influenciadas por la presencia de un estado remoto o incluso ausente, lo que ha marcado la historia de la industr…
A Cautious Silence
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Management Speak
In this article we examine the concept of ‘indigenous knowledge’ as it is currently used in resource management discourse. In the process of engaging with government agents and researchers in the bureaucracy of resource management, indigenous knowledge is a powerful concept in the legitimization of local indigenous practice as well as the recognition of resource and socio-environmental management aspirations. Our use of the phrase ‘management spe…
Bodily Connections and Practising Relatedness
Sustaining ignorance
The extraction of groundwater and the regulation of its use in many parts of the world have been found to present a particular kind of problem. A contest involving mining companies, an 'impacted' community, and the state arising from groundwater and its extraction in the Salar de Atacama, northern Chile, provides a stark example. What marks the case are the many uncertainties about underground water and the quantities extracted. This article argu…
That's the problem with that lake; it changes sides
Multiple dynamics produce the ecological present. For the past 30 years or more, in the southern Atacama salt pan (Salar) in northern Chile, extractive industries have been accumulating minerals and water in exhaustive quantities, taking ever more than may be regenerated. However, the exhaustion of the Salar de Atacama involves a more complex set of symptoms than demonstrable environmental depletion. Fragmented scientific knowledge of the salt pa…
Neoextractivism and Indigenous Water Ritual in Salar de Atacama, Chile
Latin American governments are neoextractivist: they promote exploitation of natural resources as central to economic development while acting to mitigate some of the excesses of extractive activity. In the space left open by the neoliberal state in the Salar de Atacama in northern Chile, the mining industry creates its own regulatory mechanisms and provides infrastructure and "improvement" projects to indigenous communities. While these projects…
A Cautious Silence
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Socios
En 2007, una comunidad atacameña del norte de Chile y una empresa multinacional minera de cobre renovaron un trato de diez años con respecto al uso del territorio por parte de la empresa y el impacto causado debido a la extracción de recursos de agua subterránea. Las negociaciones entre la comunidad atacameña y la empresa minera están influenciadas por la presencia de un estado remoto o incluso ausente, lo que ha marcado la historia de la industr…
Ritualidad Y Extractivismo
In the context of progressive privatization of water since the military regime in Chile and beginning with the Water Code of 1981, we analyze water disputes among Atacameo communities of the Salar de Atacama and mining corporations whom they confront and also negotiate value and meanings. From an ethnographic perspective as well as taking up material from political ecology, the anthropology of nature, and recent work on extractivism, we observe t…
Lithium extractivism
The ‘Green economy’, a central plank of the sustainable development political and economic international agenda, relies on industrial extraction of water, minerals and other earths to produce ‘green energy’ to feed capitalist growth. The term Green extractivism describes a global problem that we examine through the case of lithium extraction in the territory of Atacameño-Likanantay (Indigenous) peoples in the Salar de Atacama, Chile. Green extrac…
Negotiated Agreements, Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industry in the Salar de Atacama, Chile
While acknowledging advances in legal recognition of Indigenous rights, much of the research literature positions negotiated agreements between Indigenous peoples and corporations simply as 'neoliberal technology' that gives the appearance of Indigenous consent while allowing exploitation to continue. This analysis is flawed in considering agreements as discrete, stand-alone phenomena. It ignores the possibility that Indigenous peoples may use ag…
Failing forward
Neoliberalism's failings as a social order are a commonplace in the critical social sciences, and lately such critique has even been ventured from within the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. How has such a problematic form of capitalism both sustained criticism and flourished? Chilean neoliberalism might tell us something of how neoliberal forms weather critique to sustain elite power and significant social inequality, that is, how…
Bodily Connections and Practising Relatedness
Bodily Connections and Practising Relatedness
Management Speak
In this article we examine the concept of ‘indigenous knowledge’ as it is currently used in resource management discourse. In the process of engaging with government agents and researchers in the bureaucracy of resource management, indigenous knowledge is a powerful concept in the legitimization of local indigenous practice as well as the recognition of resource and socio-environmental management aspirations. Our use of the phrase ‘management spe…
A Cautious Silence
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Socios
En 2007, una comunidad atacameña del norte de Chile y una empresa multinacional minera de cobre renovaron un trato de diez años con respecto al uso del territorio por parte de la empresa y el impacto causado debido a la extracción de recursos de agua subterránea. Las negociaciones entre la comunidad atacameña y la empresa minera están influenciadas por la presencia de un estado remoto o incluso ausente, lo que ha marcado la historia de la industr…
Contested value and an ethics of resources
The question of value is fundamental to contexts of resource scarcity given that contest over use and distribution of scarce resources centres on judgments about rights, interests and access. In mining processes, the use and extraction of water in great volumes commodifies and threatens supplies of what others understand to be a substance essential to all forms of life. In the Atacama, while industrial extraction and commodification by the mining…
Where the river ends
"The problem with "transparency
Subterranean waters in the mineral-rich and water-poor Atacama desert, northern Chile, are subject to contest between resource-extracting companies and mostly indigenous residents. In complying with global Corporate Social Responsibility standards and local agreements, and in an effort to reduce opposition from indigenous groups, some mining companies have begun to undertake "transparency" reporting regarding the impact of their subterranean wate…
State Theory and Andean Politics
Ritualidad Y Extractivismo
In the context of progressive privatization of water since the military regime in Chile and beginning with the Water Code of 1981, we analyze water disputes among Atacameo communities of the Salar de Atacama and mining corporations whom they confront and also negotiate value and meanings. From an ethnographic perspective as well as taking up material from political ecology, the anthropology of nature, and recent work on extractivism, we observe t…
Failing forward
Neoliberalism's failings as a social order are a commonplace in the critical social sciences, and lately such critique has even been ventured from within the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. How has such a problematic form of capitalism both sustained criticism and flourished? Chilean neoliberalism might tell us something of how neoliberal forms weather critique to sustain elite power and significant social inequality, that is, how…
Neoextractivism and Indigenous Water Ritual in Salar de Atacama, Chile
Latin American governments are neoextractivist: they promote exploitation of natural resources as central to economic development while acting to mitigate some of the excesses of extractive activity. In the space left open by the neoliberal state in the Salar de Atacama in northern Chile, the mining industry creates its own regulatory mechanisms and provides infrastructure and "improvement" projects to indigenous communities. While these projects…
That's the problem with that lake; it changes sides
Multiple dynamics produce the ecological present. For the past 30 years or more, in the southern Atacama salt pan (Salar) in northern Chile, extractive industries have been accumulating minerals and water in exhaustive quantities, taking ever more than may be regenerated. However, the exhaustion of the Salar de Atacama involves a more complex set of symptoms than demonstrable environmental depletion. Fragmented scientific knowledge of the salt pa…
Sustaining ignorance
The extraction of groundwater and the regulation of its use in many parts of the world have been found to present a particular kind of problem. A contest involving mining companies, an 'impacted' community, and the state arising from groundwater and its extraction in the Salar de Atacama, northern Chile, provides a stark example. What marks the case are the many uncertainties about underground water and the quantities extracted. This article argu…
Water Ownership and Governance
Water governance refers to the material and regulatory control of water and waters. It involves questions such as who makes decisions about water and how; at what scale such decisions are made in relation to different waters; and who and which water or ecosystem benefits. Classical work in anthropology considered how irrigation practices may have given rise to the development of state forms, and in response to early-21st-century privatization reg…
Seeing water
This article reflects on ten years of ethnographic work investigating concerns about mining industry-produced environmental and social change in hyperarid territories experiencing long-term drought. The ecological and social effects of groundwater extraction by the copper and lithium mining industry in the southern Salar de Atacama are not immediately detectable, since water, the saltpan, and the desert provide few clues, and the political and ec…
Affective propositions, the plant turn, and critiques of development
Lithium extractivism
The ‘Green economy’, a central plank of the sustainable development political and economic international agenda, relies on industrial extraction of water, minerals and other earths to produce ‘green energy’ to feed capitalist growth. The term Green extractivism describes a global problem that we examine through the case of lithium extraction in the territory of Atacameño-Likanantay (Indigenous) peoples in the Salar de Atacama, Chile. Green extrac…
Negotiated Agreements, Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industry in the Salar de Atacama, Chile
While acknowledging advances in legal recognition of Indigenous rights, much of the research literature positions negotiated agreements between Indigenous peoples and corporations simply as 'neoliberal technology' that gives the appearance of Indigenous consent while allowing exploitation to continue. This analysis is flawed in considering agreements as discrete, stand-alone phenomena. It ignores the possibility that Indigenous peoples may use ag…
Water Futures in Australia
This special issue is part of a shift in social science and humanities thinking and in public awareness towards planetary water concerns. As societal and scholarly attention to the wet element - and its political import and its cultural constitution - is growing, we ask, how can we rethink our relationships with water in Australia now and into the future? The collection of papers in this issue shows that water responds to human practices which in…
Undocumented
Archives make historical presence and absence concrete.When tangible evidence is required to prove historical injustices and facilitate reparations, an ethnographic approach for reading archival records can uncover stories and traces of people and situations that, at a glance, seem hidden beneath the ink.This is the case for the many First Nations Australian women and girls who worked as domestic servants on Queensland pastoral stations; the docu…
Anthropology as Vocation
Epistemically resistant, unruly and relational
This article engages with the dynamics of groundwater’s epistemic resistance, its persistent resistance to being a fact, and manifold uncertainties in the human and more-than-human relations of the Salar de Atacama. How might expanded considerations of groundwater’s unruliness better inform knowledge of it and future relations with it? I draw on legal cases that illustrate entrenched problems with mining company and regulatory groundwater science…
Entrepreneurial Becomings
In the context of global economic and political crises, microentrepreneurship enjoys popularity both as a solution to poverty and as an empowering lifestyle based on values of independence and flexibility. While education, training, and engagement in entrepreneurship may have significant effects on self‐making, social and economic change from entrepreneurial formation remains ambivalent. In this introductory essay, we set out how becoming an entr…
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