{"product_id":"groundwater-politics-sally-babidge-9781805398820","title":"Groundwater Politics: Advanced Extractivism and Slow Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003e The mining industry is an expanding socio-ecological and political problem worldwide, not least in Atacameño-Likanantay (Indigenous) territories in the hyper-arid Salar de Atacama, Chile. \u003cem\u003eGroundwater Politics\u003c\/em\u003e addresses the social, technical and political conditions it calls 'advanced extractivism' to reveal how groundwater extraction sustains both ecological damage and mining economies. It richly describes the area's copper and lithium industries as historically linked with Indigenous communities and their ecological and economic futures. Based on over a decade of ethnographic research, the book casts community strategies to control water and territory as 'slow resistance', the structural and multifaceted practices that generate a material future amid potential resource exhaustion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sally Babidge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1805398822\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781805398820\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Sally Babidge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46640803283199,"sku":"9781805398820","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bd07ef74-0189-4a36-9fad-382eae9aec59.jpg?v=1740670560","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/groundwater-politics-sally-babidge-9781805398820","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}