Beach politics social, racial, and environmental injustice on the shoreline / edited by Setha Low.

Other author Low, Setha M., editor.
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PublicationNew York : New York University Press, 2025.
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Contents Enclosing the coastal commons : beach privatization and social inequality in the twentieth century United States / Andrew W. Kahrl -- Cultural repertoires and a beach dispute in Southern California / Matilde Córdoba Azcárate -- Experiences of leisure, governance, and protest in the coastline spaces of Beirut / Nadine Khayat and Clare Rishbeth -- Beach time : the politics and moral order of Argentina's urban beaches / Mariano D. Perelman -- The post-political beach : conceptual and empirical explorations in Greece and Austria / Sabine Knierbein and Charis Christodoulou -- Beachfront protection as beach privatization : coastlines, property lines, and climate change adaptation in Sydney / Kurt Iveson and Ana Vila-Concejo -- Protection of the shoreline : tensions and conflicts on Fire Island / Dana Taplin -- East River Park, resiliency politics, and the war on the trees / Benjamin Heim Shepard -- Resilience in the Rockaways : coastal imaginaries and racial coastal formation / Bryce Dubois and Leigh Graham -- Only in Albuquerque : remembering Albuquerque's Tingley Beach / Natasha Howard -- Four shades of whiteness : a history of the White South African beachgoer / Kevin Durrheim -- "A coveted paradise" : policing and the devastation of coastal lands, or boats, beaches, and bairros / Keisha-Khan Y. Perry -- Las playas son del pueblo : the struggle for Puerto Rico's coast / Katherine McCaffery -- Dublin's Riviera : Dollymount Strand and Bull Island / Paul Rouse -- Regulation and freedom on Europe's "city beaches" / Quentin Stevens.
Abstract "What do confrontations over beach use--the various restrictions, justifications, and access conflicts-tell us about contemporary politics? They remind us that shorelines-especially their most coveted parts, sandy beaches-are a reflection-and refraction-of contemporary political and economic struggles. In the most general terms, this book focuses on these struggles-especially as they are grounded in a particular time and space-that is, beach "politics.""-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Beach politics New York : New York University Press, 2025 9781479821969
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