Schöneich, Svenja <br/><br/>
Living on a time bomb  local negotiations of oil extraction in a Mexican community /  [electronic book] : 
Svenja Schöneich. 
 - online resource (231 pages) 
 - Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology .
 - Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology  30 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction.: <br/>Knowledge Unlatched. <br/>Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781800736566 (hardback) 9781800737433 (e-Book) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Petroleum industry and trade--Mexico<br/>Capitalism--Mexico<br/>Community life--Mexico
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.272820972