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In the Shadow of the Seawall

Coastal Injustice and the Dilemma of Placekeeping
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In the Shadow of the Seawall journeys to the edge of the sea to examine the existential dilemma of seawalls alongside struggles for resilience and adaptation. In coastal management debates, seawalls are a deeply contested subject: some experts favor hard structures for mitigating the impacts of sea change, while others advocate measures modeled on natural processes. Summer Gray argues that both approaches involve limited notions of resilience that undermine movements for social and climate justice. Instead, she introduces the concept of placekeeping—the struggle to resist colonizing practices of displacement—as a justice-oriented framework for addressing the global dangers of coastal disruption. Drawing on a mix of ethnographic observation, interviews, and archival research, Gray shows how competing logics of adaptation play out on the ground in Guyana and the Maldives to reveal how seawalls are entrenched in relationships of power and entangled in processes of making and keeping place.  

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Summer Gray is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  
Release date NZ
August 29th, 2023
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  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
1 b-w figure, 3 maps
Pages
236
Dimensions
152x229x15
ISBN-13
9780520392748
Product ID
36600774

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