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Western Sahara and the Canary Islands have a complex relationship interwoven with slavery, fisheries, plantations, genocide, and non-human exchanges. Jable Rubio (yellow sand), is the name given to the sand that blows from the Western Saharan desert over to the islands. Jable Pardo - Viele GrÜße aus Canaria develops a critical spatial literacy into the illegal mining of sand of in Western Sahara to adorn the beaches of the Canary Islands. FRAUD's glass is melted from the Gran Canaria's Hesperian beaches , i
Officials like Julio Martinez Santa-Olalla and Martín Almagro Basch formulated archaeological theories which endorsed the Spanish regime's newly 'acquired' frontiers . The Hispanic claims over the Canary Archipelago served to validate the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco and Western Sahara . These regions were endowed with abundant resources such as phosphate rock , smooth Saharan sand, plentiful fisheries and onshore oil deposits, among others. For Spain, archaeological evidences glowed bright with extracti
Resonating with these archaeological fictions, tourism was also instrumental to Franco's dominion . While post-war Europe was being shored up as civilisation du loisir , tourism was incorporated as strategic export by the propaganda apparatus of the state . One of the most prominent departments was the Ministry of Information and Tourism, often referred to as the Ministry of Propaganda . Throughout Spain's fasticised modernity, aggressive disagrarisation was followed by tourism-led development . Saharan san
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