“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

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.

Series: Volume 30, Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology

Subject: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Area: Latin America and the Caribbean

LC: HD9574.M63 E65 2023

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; BUS070150 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Industries/Natural Resource Extraction; SOC026020 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Sociology/Rural