Dr Sally Babidge
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
Pinner, Breanna, Ross, Helen, Jones, Natalie, Babidge, Sally, Shaw, Sylvie, Witt, Katherine and Rissik, David (2019). A custodial ethic: Indigenous values towards water in Moreton Bay and catchments. In Ian R. Tibbetts, Peter C. Rothlisberg, David T. Neil, Tamara A. Homburg, David T. Brewer and Angela H. Arthington (Ed.), Moreton Bay Quandamooka and catchment: past, present and future (pp. 29-44) Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Moreton Bay Foundation.
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. :