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

by Svenja Schöneich

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800736568
• ISBN13: 9781800736566
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"