@article{Escalera Briceño_Palafox Muñoz_2021, title={The mercantile frontier of tourism and its dynamics of appropriation and capitalization of sand as a natural resource}, volume={6}, url={https://revista.religacion.com/index.php/religacion/article/view/802}, DOI={10.46652/rgn.v6i29.802}, abstractNote={<p>In the present paper, criticism is presented regarding the extraction of sand that occurred in the Punta Norte Bank on Cozumel Island and La Ollita II on Isla Mujeres in the Mexican Caribbean, these facts have special attention to show how capitalism appropriates raw material (natural resources) for free or cheap. This dynamic occurs under the commercial border of tourism, which consists of the appropriation and capitalization of the sand to solve the erosion of the coasts, mainly in the hotel zone of Cancun, a bastion of activity in Mexico, witnessing the theft of the subsoil through accumulation by dispossession for the strengthening of capitalist dynamics. In this way, the article seeks to contribute to critical studies of tourism, especially in socio-environmental conflicts.</p&gt;}, number={29}, journal={Religación}, author={Escalera Briceño, Alejandro and Palafox Muñoz, Alejandro}, year={2021}, month={Aug.}, pages={e210802} }