Publications

Books

2024 Visible Ruins: The Politics of Perception and the Legacies of Mexico’s Revolution. Austin: The University of Texas Press.

Articles

In press “Shedding Light on Labor: Photography, Archaeology, and the Making of Monumentality in Tajín, Mexico.” Bulletin of the History of Archaeology.

2023 (coauthored) “Encountering Lauren Berlant: Cruel and Other Optimisms.” The Geographical Journal 189: 143–160.

https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/geoj.12493

2018  “(In)Visible Ruins: The Politics of Monumental Reconstruction in Post-revolutionary Mexico.” Hispanic American Historical Review 98(1): 43–76.

  • Honorable Mention, Humanities Essay Award, Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section.

https://read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article-abstract/98/1/43/133429/In-visible-Ruins-The-Politics-of-Monumental?redirectedFrom=fulltext

2016  “Crude Residues: The Workings of Failing Oil Infrastructure in Poza Rica, Veracruz, Mexico.” Environment and Planning A 48 (4) 718-735.

  • Winner, Professional Geographer Award, Energy and Environment Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308518X15594618

2015  “Enacting  Agrarian Law: The Effects of Legal Failure in Post-revolutionary Mexico.” The Journal of Latin American Studies 47 (4) 685-715.

  • Honorable Mention, Social Sciences Essay Award, Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-latin-american-studies/article/enacting-agrarian-law-the-effects-of-legal-failure-in-postrevolutionary-mexico/FAF29468E7F091210E65004ED738171B

Book Reviews

2019 Amy Cox Hall, Framing the Lost City: Science, Photography, and the Making of Machu Picchu. The Hispanic American Historical Review 99(4): 767-769.

https://read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article-abstract/99/4/767/140580/Framing-a-Lost-City-Science-Photography-and-the?redirectedFrom=fulltext

 2018 Gastón Gordillo, Rubble: The Aftermath of Destruction. The Hispanic American Historical Review 98(3): 549-550.

https://read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article-abstract/98/3/549/135119/Rubble-The-Afterlife-of-Destruction?redirectedFrom=fulltext

2018  Christina Bueno, The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History and the Making of Modern Mexico. H-Net Reviews (December).

https://networks.h-net.org/node/23910/reviews/1005618/salas-landa-bueno-pursuit-ruins-archaeology-history-and-making-modern

Web-based publications

2018 “Commentary: Toxic Bodies, Part I.” Engagement (blog of The Anthropology and Environment Society). February 22.

 https://aesengagement.wordpress.com/2018/02/22/commentary-toxic-bodies-part-i/

 

 

Image Credit: Detail, Desalojo de los campesinos del Ejido de El Huanal, Mpio. De Vega de Alatorre, Edo de Veracruz, 1967, Archivo General de la Nación, Dirección General de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociales. Información General de los Estados, Distrito Federal, Tomo IX–X, Caja 151, foja 198-203.