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Record Nr.

UNINA9910637691903321

Autore

Schöneich Svenja

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berghahn Books, 2022

New York, NY : , : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

1-80073-743-2

1-80073-657-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 pages)

Collana

Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; ; v.30

Disciplina

338.272820972

Soggetti

Rural communities

Mining industry

Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Entering the Oilscape -- Chapter 1 - Theorizing Oil: A Conceptualization of the Oilscape -- Chapter 2 - A Mexican Oil Store: 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 -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.