Race, Place and the Seaside

Daniel Burdsey is a Reader at the University of Brighton, UK. He is Assistant Head of School (Research) in the School for Sport and Service Management, and co-leads the ‘Spaces, Power and Justice’ cluster in the university’s Centre for Research on Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics.

• Part I.- 1. Introduction: race, place and the seaside.- 2. Shifting sands? Theories and concepts of contemporary life at the water’s edge.- 3. Shifting sands? Theories and concepts of contemporary life at the water’s edge.- 4. Between the city and the sea: race, ethnicity and space at the periphery.- 5. Race, whiteness, and the spaces and places of seaside leisure.- Part II.- 6. “It still felt like I was going to the end of the earth”: race, identity and community formation in a seaside town.- 7. “Sometimes, you know, I feel happy when I see the sea”: landscapes of race and spatial im/mobilities in a seaside town.- 8. “It’s just the culture of the town, they’re not used to different people coming”: racialised inclusions and exclusions in a seaside town.- 9. Conclusion: the tides they are a-changin’?

“Daniel Burdsey’s book ‘Race, Place and the Seaside’ is quite simply a jolly good read, in the true sense of the word ‘jolly’. But it is also so much more than just that. This is – for me – a ground-breaking book.” (George W. Leeson, Journal of Population Ageing, Vol. 11, 2018)