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

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.

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Svenja Schoeneich, Svenja Schoneich, Svenja Schöneich
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781800736566
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-656-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology; Environmental Anthropology and
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Mexico, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Mining Industry, Extractive industries