Dr Sally Babidge
Senior Lecturer
School of Social Science
+61 7 336 53286
Publications
Books
Babidge S. (2010). Aboriginal family and the state: The conditions of history. ALDERSHOT: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. doi: 10.4324/9781315565422
Babidge, Sally (2010). Aboriginal family and the state. Farnham, U.K.: Ashgate.
Babidge, Sally (2007). Written True Not Gammon: A history of Aboriginal Charters Towers. Thuringowa, Qld: Black Ink Press.
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. Moreton Bay Quandamooka and catchment: past, present and future. (pp. 29-44) edited by Ian R. Tibbetts, Peter C. Rothlisberg, David T. Neil, Tamara A. Homburg, David T. Brewer and Angela H. Arthington. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Moreton Bay Foundation.
Babidge, Sally (2015). Who belongs in the nation?. Courting Blakness: recalibrating knowledge in the sandstone university. (pp. 112-117) edited by Fiona Foley, Louise Martin-Chew and Fiona Nicoll. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press.
Babidge, Sally (2011). The proof of native title connection in absentia. Unsettling anthropology: The demands of native title on worn concepts and changing lives. (pp. 82-99) edited by Toni Bauman and Gaynor Macdonald. Canberra, ACT, Australia: AIATSIS.
Babidge, Sally and Dressler, Wolfram (2010). Identity, difference, and development. The International Studies encyclopedia. (pp. 3576-3594) edited by Robert A. Denemark. 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. Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia. (pp. 137-152) edited by K. Glaskin, M. Tonkinson, Y. Musharbash and V. Burbank. Surrey UK: Ashgate.
Journal Articles
Babidge, Sally (2020) Consultation's overburden: Indigenous participation in the extractive industry in the Salar de Atacama, Chile. Transformations, 33 48-63.
Babidge, Sally, Kalazich, Fernanda, Prieto, Manuel and Yager, Karina (2019). 'That's the problem with that lake; it changes sides': mapping extraction and ecological exhaustion in the Atacama. Journal of Political Ecology, 26 (1) 3169, 738-760. doi: 10.2458/v26i1.23169
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, 122 (1) aman.13363, 184-185. 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
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.
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
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. Australian Anthropological Society Conference, St Lucia, Qld, Australia, 26-29 September 2012. St Lucia, Qld, Australia: Australian Anthropological Society.
Babidge, Sally (2011). Comparing informal and formal community-company relations. First International Seminar on Social Responsibility in Mining (SR Mining 2011), Santiago Chile, 19-21 October 2011. Santiago Chile: Gecamin.
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..