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This dissertation project seeks to unpack new epistemologies of “landscape” in the context of digital technologies and neoliberal governance; to theorize landscape as an analog and situated practice of looking at land; and to argue for its potential to articulate an anti-imperial politics of the local. Building on a broad genealogy of the term across the humanities, I attend to the introduction of “landscape” as a category of environmental policy and management in the 1960s. As tools for resource management, landscape assessments transform the subjective and embodied experience of looking at land into a quantified calculus of valuation that can be registered as data and weighted against economic interests. These assessments, originating in the United States, are now conducted across Latin America in ways that legitimize extraction and foreign interests, while sidelining the claims of local residents and Indigenous groups. By focusing on case studies from across the Peruvian territory, my dissertation deconstructs the apparent universality of digital forms of assessment and narrates the entangled histories of migration, dispossession and extraction embedded in the land.