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Sand Geographies: Disentangling the Material Foundations of the Built Environment
Abstract: Sand is the world's most used construction material forming the physical backbone of the built environment, while its extraction is causing severe socioecological damages and political-economic frictions. This paper answers the need for more scientific attention, by tracing sand and the geographies of its multiple entanglements from the global economy to the local socioecological effects of its exploitation. First, the article reviews existing literature, providing an introduction into sand's political relevance, economic use, geophysical dynamics and socioenvironmental effects of its extraction. Second, it proposes a sociomaterial geography of sand centred around resource geographies, calling for a stronger engagement with the material foundations of urbanisation and its spatiotemporal effects. Overall, the article calls for more sociomaterial analyses of sand in order to challenge its normalisation as a universal, readily available, cheap and conflict-free construction material
Sand
Renowned novelist and creative non-fiction writer, Robert Drewe, teams up with internationally acclaimed poet, John Kinsella, to explore a common geography in poetry and prose. Sand is quintessentially Australian. It is a property from which many of our stories, assumptions and geographical reckonings are drawn. For Drewe and Kinsella, it evokes the memories - both personal and cultural - that inspire the writing in this book.
Circumstances
A story about a cop, an inheritance, a Eurasian supermodel and a Japanese crime family
A Poet's World - the Poetry of Robert John Mestre
The published and award winning poetry and art of Robert John Mestre. Included are works written under the psuedonym Toshiro Takeshita.View the world as seen through a poets eyes. Expressed in haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun, and art. The world has never been more beautiful.
