Dr Sally Babidge
Head of Discipline - Anthropology & Senior Lecturer
School of Social Science
+61 7 336 53286

Publications
Books
Babidge S. Aboriginal family and the state: The conditions of history. ALDERSHOT: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2010.
Babidge, Sally Aboriginal family and the state. Edited by Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart Farnham, U.K.: Ashgate, 2010.
Babidge, Sally Written True Not Gammon: A history of Aboriginal Charters Towers. Thuringowa, Qld: Black Ink Press, 2007.
Book Chapters
Babidge, Sally (2015). Who belongs in the nation?. In Fiona Foley, Louise Martin-Chew and Fiona Nicoll (Ed.), Courting Blakness: recalibrating knowledge in the sandstone university (pp. 112-117) St Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press.
Babidge, Sally (2011). The proof of native title connection in absentia. In Toni Bauman and Gaynor Macdonald (Ed.), Unsettling anthropology: The demands of native title on worn concepts and changing lives (pp. 82-99) Canberra, ACT, Australia: AIATSIS.
Babidge, Sally and Dressler, Wolfram (2010). Identity, difference, and development. In Robert A. Denemark (Ed.), The International Studies encyclopedia (pp. 3576-3594) Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.23
Babidge, S. (2008). Death, family and disrespect in a northern Queensland town. In K. Glaskin, M. Tonkinson, Y. Musharbash and V. Burbank (Ed.), Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia (pp. 137-152) Surrey UK: Ashgate.
Journal Articles
Babidge, Sally (2019) When the Hills Are Gone: Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community by Thomas W. Pearson Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2017. 248 pp. American Anthropologist, . doi:10.1111/aman.13363
Babidge, Sally (2019) Sustaining ignorance: the uncertainties of groundwater and its extraction in the Salar de Atacama, northern Chile. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 25 1: 83-102. doi:10.1111/1467-9655.12965
Babidge, Sally and Bolados, Paola (2018) Neoextractivism and indigenous water ritual in Salar de Atacama, Chile. Latin American Perspectives, 45 5: 170-185. doi:10.1177/0094582X18782673
Babidge, Sally and Belfrage, Madeleine (2017) Failing forward: A case study in neoliberalism and abandonment in Calama. Cultural Dynamics, 29 4: 235-254. doi:10.1177/0921374017743300
Babidge, Sally (2017) Alchemy in the rainforest. Politics, ecology, and resilience in a New Guinea mining area. Human Ecology, 45 1: 135-137. doi:10.1007/s10745-016-9876-z
Garcia, Paola Bolados and Babidge, Sally (2017) Ritualidad y extractivismo. La limpia de canales y las disputas por el agua en el salar de atacama-norte de Chile. Estudios Atacamenos, 2017 54: 201-216. doi:10.4067/S0718-10432016005000026
Bolados Garcia, Paola and Babidge, Sally (2017) Ritualidad y extractivismo. La limpia de canales y las disputas por el agua en el
salar de atacama-norte de chile. Estudios Atacamenos, 54: 201-216.
Babidge, Sally (2016) State Theory and Andean Politics: New Approaches to the Study of Rule. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 22 1: 107-109. doi:10.1080/13260219.2016.1182253
Babidge, Sally (2015) Contested value and an ethics of resources: water, mining and indigenous people in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 27 1: 84-103. doi:10.1111/taja.12139
Babidge, Sally (2015) The problem with 'transparency': moral contests and ethical possibilities in mining impact reporting. Focaal, 73 73: 70-83. doi:10.3167/fcl.2015.730106
Babidge, Sally (2014) Where the river ends: contested indigeneity in the Mexican Colorado Delta, by Shaylih Muehlmann. Anthropological Forum, 25 1: 86-88. doi:10.1080/00664677.2014.906021
Babidge, Sally (2013) "Socios": the contested morality of "partnerships" in indigenous community-mining company relations, northern Chile. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 18 2: 274-293. doi:10.1111/jlca.12020
Babidge, S., Greer, S., Henry, R. and Pam, C. (2007) Management speak: Indigenous knowledge and bureaucratic engagement. Social Analysis, 51 3: 148-164. doi:10.3167/sa.2007.510307
Babidge, Sally (2006) Bodily connections and practising relatedness: Aboriginal family and funerals in rural north Queensland. Anthropological Forum, 16 1: 55-71. doi:10.1080/00664670600572520
Babidge, S., Cokley, J. D., Gordon, F. and Louw, P. E. (2005) Making media work in space: An interdisciplinary perspective on media and communication requirements for current and future space communities. International Journal of Astrobiology, 4 3-4: 259-268. doi:10.1017/S1473550405002788
Conference Papers
Trigger, David, Babidge, Sally, Oertierra, Anna, Ross, Annie and Hafner, Diane (2012). Cars, museums, collecting: objects and the nature of heritage. In: Culture and context in a material world: Australian Anthropological Society Conference 2012. Australian Anthropological Society Conference, St Lucia, Qld, Australia, (115-116). 26-29 September 2012.
Babidge, Sally (2011). Comparing informal and formal community-company relations. In: Proceedings of the First International Seminar on Social Responsibility in Mining. First International Seminar on Social Responsibility in Mining (SR Mining 2011), Santiago Chile, (). 19-21 October 2011.
Research Reports
Babidge, Sally (2012) Supplementary material at request of QSNTS, in regard to Anthropological expert report: Kullilli Native Title Claim. Expert Report to Queensland South Native Title Services Aboriginal Corporation. Report produced for the Australian Federal Court proceedings and Consent Determination. :