This conversation gathers four interdisciplinary scholars/curators to map Guyanese women’s global currents along the following axes: the art and migration narratives of women of the Guyanese diaspora in global contemporary art as they trace their departures, arrivals on diasporic soils, and returns to Guyana (Grace Aneiza Ali); narratives of Guyanese culture warriors who demonstrate the insistent role of art in contemporary politics and life (Natalie Hopkinson); an ecofeminist analysis that parses the interplay among development dreams, ecological nightmares, and tourist fantasies within global extractive industries which exploit Guyana’s women across several borders while jeopardizing fragile ecologies (Oneka LaBennett); and an intersectional analysis of the body that tracks racial difference, gendered violence, and indigenous dispossession in extractivist geographies (Shanya Cordis).

This interdisciplinary group of scholars from the fields of visual art, anthropology, American studies, and communication studies will center on the following primary question: How do art and environment converge within the global political economies that shape Guyanese women’s lives at this pivotal moment?