Invisible seasides : a new way of redeeming a utopia's past and imagining its afterlife / Tony Blackshaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blackshaw, Tony, 1960- Author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge advances in sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seashore--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Seashore.

Beaches--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Beaches.

Utopias--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Utopias.

Leisure--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Leisure.

Seaside resorts--Social aspects.

Seaside resorts.

Seaside resorts--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

Contents:

Introduction: understanding the modern seaside as a utopian phenomenon

PART I: Seaside utopia as a methodological problem

Deconstructing procedures of empirical investigation

Some alternative uses of leisure

The problem with social histories of the modern seaside and what to do about it

PART II: From birth to death and beyond: a short history of Seaside Utopia

The origins of Seaside Utopia

The democratization of Seaside Utopia

The end of Seaside Utopia

PART III: Post-utopias of the twenty-first century seaside

Seaside Utopia recollected and redesigned: retrotopia

The seaside's permanent present: redotopia

An aetiology of the seaside's hidden heterotopias

Representing seaside heterotopia: urbex performa-spheres and surfing value-spheres

In search of home: the private paradises of seaside oikotopia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version Blackshaw, Tony Invisible seasides

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781351134170 (electronic bk.)

1351134175 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

90102218544

CIPO000251828

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