Living on a Time Bomb

Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community

Svenja Schöneich (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-718-2 (ISBN)

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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 "live off the time bomb" 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.

Svenja Schöneich is a research associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Entering the Oilscape

Chapter 1. Theorizing Oil: A Conceptualization of the Oilscape

Chapter 2. A Mexican Oil Story – historic Background and contemporary Setting

Chapter 3. From Booms, Declines and Time Bombs - Temporalities of Oil in Emiliano Zapata

Chapter 4. From an Ejido to an Extraction Site – Materialities of Oil in Emiliano Zapata

Chapter 5. Dealing with the Dragon – Social Dynamics and Ambiguity in Emiliano Zapata

Conclusion and Discussion

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.09.2024
Reihe/Serie	Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Bergbau
ISBN-10	1-80539-718-4 / 1805397184
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-718-2 / 9781805397182
Zustand	Neuware