Living on a Time Bomb (eBook)

Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community

Svenja Schöneich (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
256 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-657-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and produces multiple uncertainties. The community members express these uncertainties using the metaphor of the time bomb. The book shows how they find ways to "e;live off the time bomb"e; by using mechanisms of short-term coping and long-term adaptation and thus, developing the capability to determine their lives despite the ever-changing challenges.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.10.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
• Reihe/Serie: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Bergbau
• Schlagworte: adapting • Anthropology (General), Environmental Studies (General) • communal land • Compensation • Contamination • Danger • downturn • ejido • Emiliano Zapata • Energy • extraction • Fieldwork • Fossil Fuels • Fracking • Generation gap • Identity • Materialities of Oil • Mexico • Monoculture • national emblem • Nationality • Neoliberalism • oil boom • Oil companies • OilField • oilscape • Oleorey • Papantla • Patrimony • Pemex • settlers • Social Implications • Temporalities of Oil • Totonacapan • Uncertainty
• ISBN-10: 1-80073-657-6 / 1800736576
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80073-657-3 / 9781800736573