Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vii, 221 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:
9781800736573
Series Statement:
Environmental anthropology and ethnobiology Volume30
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Dissertation erschien unter dem Titel: Living on a time bomb. Local perspectives and responses on fracking, oil and gas projects in a rural community in Veracruz, Mexico
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Dissertation Universität Hamburg 2020
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781800736566
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Schöneich, Svenja Living on a time bomb New York : Berghahn, 2023 ISBN 9781800736566
Language:
English
Keywords:
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