Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community

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Svenja Schöneich

Living on a Time Bomb

Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community

Svenja Schöneich

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English

Berghahn Books
01 October 2024

Social & cultural anthropology; Mining industry

Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology

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.

By: Svenja Schöneich
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781805397182
ISBN 10: 1805397184
Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 October 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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

Reviews for Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community

“Living on a Time Bomb is a thoroughly argued and ethnographically rich case study of a rural Mexican community. It develops a theoretically-compelling concept—the oilscape—and demonstrates how the analysis can help us to understand landscapes of extraction.” • Sam Holley-Kline, Florida State University