Beach Politics
Beach Politics
Buch
- Social, Racial, and Environmental Injustice on the Shoreline
- Herausgeber: Setha Low
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EUR 47,36*
- New York University Press, 01/2025
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781479821952
- Bestellnummer: 11808837
- Umfang: 336 Seiten
- Erscheinungstermin: 21.1.2025
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Explores how elites restrict access to public beaches around the globeBeaches are a beloved form of public space. Yet there has been an alarming global trend of restricting access to public sections of beaches to ensure that waterfront property owners can enjoy the shoreline exclusively or develop the land for commercial use.
Beach Politics examines how over the past forty years, privatization of public space has accelerated with the help of both local governments and national corporations. On a local level, this can entail a group of wealthy neighbors purposely blocking off public beach access in their neighborhood: hiring security guards, building fences, or putting up "No Trespassing" signs to turn away members of the public who have every right to be there. On a state or national level, it can manifest as gated communities owned by private corporations sectioning off huge swaths of land, limiting access, or governments promoting private, rather than public, development along the shoreline. Whenever disputes about land use arise, the powers that be often side with private interests and the wealthy over those with fewer resources and, frequently, people of color.
Focused on beaches, access to public space, and social justice, this book brings together powerful contributions illustrating how these issues are inextricably bound with socioeconomic status, racial segregation, and climate justice. Together they highlight how, through illegal actions and exclusionary legislation, the beach can be transformed from "a strip of nature" into a palimpsest of greed, racism, ecological disregard, and socioeconomic discrimination.
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Beach Politics
EUR 47,36*