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Shifting Sands? Theories and Concepts of Contemporary Life at the Water’s Edge

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Race, Place and the Seaside

Abstract

Burdsey explores a range of social, cultural, and political issues related to the English seaside, as they pertain to the specific themes of race, racialisation, and racism. The chapter identifies the diverse trajectories along which modern seaside resorts have travelled. It highlights how seemingly positive processes of regeneration can actually marginalise racialised groups, while deprivation and (perceived) mainstream political exclusion have facilitated the conditions for the popularity of right-wing parties in certain seaside constituencies. Demonstrating that very little sociological, cultural studies, and historical literature on the seaside have engaged with notions of race and ethnicity, especially in the English context, this chapter considers how substantive themes of liminality and “strangeness” might be applied to the lives of minority ethnic communities at the seaside.

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Burdsey, D. (2016). Shifting Sands? Theories and Concepts of Contemporary Life at the Water’s Edge. In: Race, Place and the Seaside. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45012-8_2

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