Extraction undone

Indigenous loss of control over landscapes can be reversed. Review: Landscaping Indigenous Mexico, Fernando Pérez Montesinos, by Gavin O'Toole

Landscaping Indigenous Mexico: The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands, Fernando Pérez Montesinos, 2025, University of Texas Press

If extractive capitalism in the countryside can expand with a seemingly insatiable appetite, as countries across Latin American have experienced to their detriment, it can also contract.

Indeed, the strikin…