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Living on a time bomb [electronic book] : local negotiations of oil extraction in a Mexican community / Svenja Schöneich.

By: Schöneich, Svenja [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology: 30Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: online resource (231 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781800736566 (hardback); 9781800737433 (e-Book).Subject(s): Petroleum industry and trade -- Mexico | Capitalism -- Mexico | Community life -- MexicoDDC classification: 338.272820972 Online resources: e-Book
Contents:
Introduction : entering the oilscape -- Theorising oil: a conceptualization of the oilscape -- A Mexican oil story: historic background and contemporary setting -- From booms, declines, and time bombs: temporalities of oil in Emiliano Zapata -- From an Ejido to an extraction site: materialities of oil in Emiliano Zapata -- Dealing with the dragon: social dynamics and ambiguity in Emiliano Zapata.
Summary: 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.
List(s) this item appears in: Sustainable Development Goals Collection
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e-BOOK MTU Bishopstown Library eBook 333.272820972 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : entering the oilscape -- Theorising oil: a conceptualization of the oilscape -- A Mexican oil story: historic background and contemporary setting -- From booms, declines, and time bombs: temporalities of oil in Emiliano Zapata -- From an Ejido to an extraction site: materialities of oil in Emiliano Zapata -- Dealing with the dragon: social dynamics and ambiguity in Emiliano Zapata.

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.

Electronic reproduction.: Knowledge Unlatched. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of Illustrations (vi)
  • Acknowledgments (viii)
  • Introduction. Entering the Oilscape (1)
  • Chapter 1 Theorizing Oil: A Conceptualization of the Oilscape (17)
  • Chapter 2 A Mexican Oil Story: Historic Background and Contemporary Setting (41)
  • Chapter 3 From Booms, Declines, and Time Bombs: Temporalities of Oil in Emiliano Zapata (73)
  • Chapter 4 From an Ejido to an Extraction Site: Materialities of Oil in Emiliano Zapata (107)
  • Chapter 5 Dealing with the Dragon: Social Dynamics and Ambiguity in Emiliano Zapata (143)
  • Conclusion (181)
  • References (192)
  • Index (217)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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

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