- 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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- About this book
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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 urban spaces, and overcomes their erasure and silencing from the seaside landscapes of the popular imagination.
- About the authors
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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.
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“Daniel Burdsey’s book ‘Race, Place and the Seaside’ is quite simply a jolly good read, in the true sense of the word ‘jolly’. But it is also so much more than just that. This is – for me – a ground-breaking book.” (George W. Leeson, Journal of Population Ageing, Vol. 11, 2018)
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction: Race, Place and the Seaside
Pages 3-34
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Shifting Sands? Theories and Concepts of Contemporary Life at the Water’s Edge
Pages 35-77
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Between the City and the Sea: Race, Ethnicity, and Space at the Periphery
Pages 79-110
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Race, Whiteness, and the Spaces and Places of Seaside Leisure
Pages 111-147
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“It Still Felt Like I Was Going to the End of the Earth”: Race, Identity, and Community Formation in a Seaside Town
Pages 151-184
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Race, Place and the Seaside
- Book Subtitle
- Postcards from the Edge
- Authors
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- Daniel Burdsey
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-45012-8
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-45012-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-68655-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXVI, 295
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