Reading heavily industrialized landscapes through a socio-territorial lens, which parallels emerge between two regions subject to neoextractivist logics and politics of socio-ecological transformation in Mexico and Germany? During my time as senior visiting scholar at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, I co-hosted a 3-day comparative research seminar with Monika Streule and gave a talk in the Seminario de Antropología Ambiental series at the Departmento de Ciencias Sociales y Políticas.