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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.
“Living on a Time Bomb is a thoroughly argued and ethnographically rich case study of a rural Mexican community. It develops a theoretically-compelling concept—the oilscape—and demonstrates how the analysis can help us to understand landscapes of extraction.” • Sam Holley-Kline, Florida State University
Svenja Schöneich is a research associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Entering the Oilscape
Chapter 1. Theorizing Oil: A Conceptualization of the Oilscape
Chapter 2. A Mexican Oil Story – historic Background and contemporary Setting
Chapter 3. From Booms, Declines and Time Bombs - Temporalities of Oil in Emiliano Zapata
Chapter 4. From an Ejido to an Extraction Site – Materialities of Oil in Emiliano Zapata
Chapter 5. Dealing with the Dragon – Social Dynamics and Ambiguity in Emiliano Zapata
References
Index