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Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community: 30 (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, 30) - Softcover

Schöneich, Svenja

 
9781805397182: Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community: 30 (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, 30)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1805397184 ISBN 13: 9781805397182
Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2024

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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

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Publisher
Berghahn Books
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1805397184
ISBN 13 
9781805397182
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
256