Living on a Time Bomb - Svenja Schöneich

Living on a Time Bomb

Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community
Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-718-2 (ISBN)
19,85 inkl. MwSt
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
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
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