In the Shadow of the Seawall

Coastal Injustice and the Dilemma of Placekeeping

Summer Gray (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

236 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39274-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Summer Gray is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	26.08.2023
Zusatzinfo	1 b-w figure, 3 maps
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	0-520-39274-4 / 0520392744
ISBN-13	978-0-520-39274-8 / 9780520392748
Zustand	Neuware