In the Shadow of the Seawall (eBook)

Coastal Injustice and the Dilemma of Placekeeping

Summer Gray (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
236 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39275-5 (ISBN)

Infos

In the Shadow of the Seawall journeys to the low-lying lands of Guyana and the Maldives to grapple with the existential dilemma of seawalls alongside struggles to resist displacement. With the gathering momentum of ocean instability wrought by centuries of injustice, seawalls have become objects of conflict and negotiation, around which human struggles for power and resistance collide. Through stories of colonial ruination and green seawalls, the concept of placekeeping emerges—a justice-oriented framework for addressing adaptation and the global dangers of coastal disruption at the front lines of climate change. Drawing on ethnographic observation and interviews, Gray shows how seawalls are entrenched in relationships of power and entangled in processes of making and keeping place.
 

Inhalt

Contents

Acknowledgments 

Introduction: Seawall Entanglements 

1. Coastal Disruption 
2. The Strangled Shore 
3. Lost Origins: Dreams of a Green Seawall 
4. The Great Wall of Malé 
5. Contested Futures: The Hope of a Living Seawall 
Conclusion: The Dilemma of Placekeeping 

Methodological Appendix 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.8.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: Beaches • climate adaptation • Coastal Protection • coastline erosion • Concrete • Dutch colonialism • Greenwashing • Indigenous peoples • Infrastructure • Land reclamation • managed retreat • Mangroves • Relocation • sea defense • sugar industry • Tourism • vulnerability
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39275-2 / 0520392752
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39275-5 / 9780520392755