A nuanced contribution to our understanding of settler colonialism.' Her passion for revealing and dismantling the racial and gender hierarchies embedded in neoliberal projects is compelling. Bianet Castellanos eloquently critiques the dispossession of Maya in Cancún and illuminates their resistance. 'Drawing on her long-term collaboration with indigenous people, M.

As Castellanos argues, it is through these maneuvers that Maya migrants forge a new vision of Indigenous urbanism. But even as Maya people contend with predatory lending practices and foreclosure, they cultivate strategies of resistance-from 'waiting out' the state, to demanding Indigenous rights in urban centers. Their struggle to own homes reveals colonial and settler colonial structures that underpin the city's economy, built environment, and racial order. Bianet Castellanos relates Maya migrants' experiences with housing and mortgage finance in Cancún, one of Mexico's fastest-growing cities. Indigenous Dispossession examines how Maya families grapple with the ramifications of neoliberal housing policies. But as palapas, traditional thatch and wood houses, are replaced by tract houses in the Yucatán Peninsula, Indigenous peoples' relationship to land, urbanism, and finance is similarly transformed, revealing a legacy of debt and dispossession. For Indigenous peoples, access to affordable housing remains crucial to alleviating poverty. At the national level, neoliberal housing policy has overtaken debates around land reform. Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico.

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