Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community
Svenja Schöneich
Oct 2022 · Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology Book 30 · Berghahn Books
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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.
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 pro...
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Svenja Schöneich is a research associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin.
Svenja Schöneich is a research associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin.
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