Name: Beach Politics: Social, Racial, and Environmental Injustice on the Shoreline (en Inglés)
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Author: Low, Setha
ISBN: 9781479821945

portada Beach Politics: Social, Racial, and Environmental Injustice on the Shoreline (en Inglés)

Beach Politics: Social, Racial, and Environmental Injustice on the Shoreline (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

New York University Press

Autor

Low, Setha

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

336

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9781479821945

Categorías

Sociología
Política y protocolos medioambientales
Conservación del medioambiente

Beach Politics: Social, Racial, and Environmental Injustice on the Shoreline (en Inglés)

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Explores how elites restrict access to public beaches around the globe Beaches 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.