Visible Ruins: The Politics of Perception and the Legacies of Mexico’s Revolution, received an honorable mention for the LASA Historia Reciente y Memoria 2026 Book Award
Prof. Salas Landa presented a lecture titled “Transmuted Grounds: ‘Rough Topographies’ and the Afterlives of Oil Extraction on Mexico’s Gulf Coast” as part of the Anthropology Colloquium at The New School for Social Research.
Visible Ruins is a finalist for the 2025 LASA Visual Culture Section Book Prize.
Focusing on a little-known petroleum explorer, her talk will explore exploitation of Veracruz oil fields and how science is perceived. Read the interview here
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