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Finding Sand in Guyana Finding Sand in Guyana
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Sand Mining: An Unseen Global Environmental Crisis Sand Mining: An Unseen Global Environmental Crisis
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Missing Grains: Extracting Guyana’s Sand Missing Grains: Extracting Guyana’s Sand
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Sand and Women in Caribbean Destination Imaginings Sand and Women in Caribbean Destination Imaginings
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Erasure and Erosion: Mining and Gendered Violence Erasure and Erosion: Mining and Gendered Violence
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Silica City: Development Dreams and Local Nightmares Silica City: Development Dreams and Local Nightmares
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Beautiful/Ugly Beautiful/Ugly
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Finding Guyana in Sand Finding Guyana in Sand
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3 Transplanted Beaches and Silica Cities: Sand, Erasure, and Erosion in the Age of the Anthropocene
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Published:April 2024
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Abstract
This chapter exposes the invisible crises attached to extracting Guyana’s silica-quartz sand. Focusing on the social and environmental impacts of sand mining, it advances an ecofeminist analysis that uncloaks the political economy of erasure and related forms of erosion surrounding extractive industries which are deflected when we focus instead on glossy images of wet sand sticking to bikini clad female bodies. Pointing to sex trafficking and gendered violence entrenched in mining industries, the chapter unveils the symbiotic relationship between environmental catastrophe and violence against women. Although Guyana lacks the crystal blue waters and pristine white sand beaches that attract vacationers to other Caribbean tourism hubs, the nation’s bounty of silica-quartz sand has been imported by the ton to replenish eroding beaches in high-profile tourist destinations and is being extracted at monumental rates to support the national development initiatives fueled by new oil. The chapter sweeps into view the tidalectic currents of erosion that spread Guyana’s sand throughout the Circum-Caribbean and beyond. It issues an urgent appeal to uncover the obfuscated story of the country’s sand in hopes of calling attention to the global social and environmental hazards of sand mining.
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