Overview
- Explores issues of race, ethnicity and multiculture in relation to the English seaside for the first time
- Emphasises the interlinked importance of recognising the racialised nature of this environment
- Advances the literature on racial formations and politics outside urban contexts, and the sociology of the English seaside
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This is the first academic monograph to focus exclusively on issues of race, ethnicity, whiteness and multiculture at the English seaside. The book calls for acknowledgement of the racialised nature of this environment, and proposes that its distinctive spaces, places, traditions and narratives should be included within broader analyses of race in contemporary Britain. Introducing the concept of ‘coastal liquidity’ to explain shifting ethno-racial demographics, migratory politics and spatial dynamics at the edge of the sea, along with the relative im/mobilities of the minority ethnic communities who move and reside there, the author provides a relational exploration of seaside experiences: both as a locus of racialised categorisation, exclusion and subjugation, and one of resistance, conviviality and intercultural exchange. Combining theoretical insight and empirical fieldwork, the book disrupts dominant thinking that fixes ontologically minority ethnic bodies to urbanspaces, and overcomes their erasure and silencing from the seaside landscapes of the popular imagination.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Daniel Burdsey is a Reader at the University of Brighton, UK. He is Assistant Head of School (Research) in the School for Sport and Service Management, and co-leads the ‘Spaces, Power and Justice’ cluster in the university’s Centre for Research on Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Race, Place and the Seaside
Book Subtitle: Postcards from the Edge
Authors: Daniel Burdsey
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45012-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-68655-1Published: 19 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-45012-8Published: 18 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 295
Topics: Ethnicity Studies, Area Studies, Demography, British Culture