“Seeing Water”: Slow Resistance, Industrial Groundwater Extraction and the Problem of Ethnographic Witness
Sally Babidge
Social Science
Title: “Seeing Water”: Slow Resistance, Industrial Groundwater Extraction and the Problem of Ethnographic Witness
Respondent: Anna Johnston
Brief abstract: This paper reflects on ten years of ethnographic work investigating local concerns about mining industry produced ecological and social change in hyper-arid territories. I discuss the capacities of ‘accumulated ethnographic witnessing’ for analysing unspectacular ecological threats and discerning the dynamics of Likanantay (Indigenous) peoples’ ‘slow resistance’.
About IASH Public Seminar Series
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
Public Seminar Program Semester 1, 2021
Disciplines in Conversation
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Day: Thursday
Time: 4:00–5:30pm
Location: Level 4, Forgan Smith Tower (Seminar Room), UQ, St Lucia QLD 4072.