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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2023.
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| Colección: | Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ;
v. 30. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 221 pages) : color illustrations, color maps. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781800736573 1800736576 9781800737433 1800737432 |