Frontiers of Appropriation

Natalia Buier is a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid. She is currently working on a historical ethnography of groundwater depletion in Southwestern Spain. Most recently, she has coedited, with Susana Narotzky and Theodora Vetta, Agricultural Extractivism in the Mediterranean Region: A Socioecological View (Palgrave Macmillam 2025).

• AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Frontiers of Appropriation and Capitalist Environment MakingPart I: Limits to the MarketChapter 1. Sliding on Bearings Greased with BanknotesChapter 2. A New Company Culture Part II: Limits to ConsensusChapter 3. A Total Modernization ProjectChapter 4. A Public and Social RailwayPart III: Limits to DevelopmentChapter 5. A Town Built from ScratchChapter 6. By Any Means NecessaryConclusion: War on Territory: An Inglorious Form of DevaluationReferencesIndex

“It is a powerfully argued and highly accomplished piece of scholarly research.” • Gareth Dale, Brunel UniversityThis is an impressive book that makes many innovative moves in the anthropology of infrastructure. • Gavin Smith, University of Toronto