Beach Politics
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"What do confrontations over beach use--the various restrictions, justifications, and access conflicts-tell us about contemporary politics? They remind us that shorelines-especially their most coveted parts, sandy beaches-are a reflection-and refraction-of contemporary political and economic struggles. In the most general terms, this book focuses on these struggles-especially as they are grounded in a particular time and space-that is, beach "politics.""--

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"What do confrontations over beach use--the various restrictions, justifications, and access conflicts-tell us about contemporary politics? They remind us that shorelines-especially their most coveted parts, sandy beaches-are a reflection-and refraction-of contemporary political and economic struggles. In the most general terms, this book focuses on these struggles-especially as they are grounded in a particular time and space-that is, beach "politics.""--
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Autorenporträt
Setha Low is Distinguished Professor of Environmental Psychology, Geography, Anthropology, and Women's Studies, and Director of the Public Space Research Group at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has been awarded a Getty Fellowship, a NEH fellowship, a Fulbright Senior Fellowship, a Future of Places Fellowship and a Guggenheim for her ethnographic research on public space in Latin America and the United States. Her most recent books are Spatializing Culture: The Ethnography of Space and Place, Anthropology and the City, Spaces of Security (with M. Maguire), and Why Public Space Matters.