<span class='italic'>There Will Be Blood</span>: The Return of the Frontier Logic in Guyana and Hyper-Exploitation in the Mining Sector

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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 February 2025

Delon Alain Omrow

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Peter Stoett and

Delon Omrow

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Peter Stoett: Affiliation:
Ontario Tech University
Delon Omrow: Affiliation:
Ontario Tech University

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This chapter provides an historical context for the emergence, and continuation, of a frontier logic of ecoviolence in Guyana, analyzing the hyper-exploitation of the Ameridians, minors and migrants in the mining sector. While Guyana’s Indigenous peoples, the Amerindians, named their home the “Land of Many Waters”, towns and villages such as Rose Hall, New Amsterdam, Queenstown and Anna Regina serve as a reminder of the European colonial regimes which spearheaded capitalist, frontier logics of extractivism which spatialized ecoviolence and precarity; the theft of Indigenous lands and territories; and ongoing structural racial, gender, and economic disparities intersected with environmental injustice. The return of neoliberal frontiers of logic and hyper-exploitation of workers forces readers to think more holistically about harm and hyper-exploitation.

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illegal mining (hyper)exploitation neoliberal frontiers extractivism Amerindians ecoviolence

Type: Chapter
Information: Ecoviolence Studies
Human Exploitation and Environmental Crime
, pp. 86 - 100

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009341622.008 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2025

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