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Informationen zum Autor Summer Gray is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Klappentext "A remarkable book. Climate change is reducing the amount of our earth safe for human habitation, and this volume—with its particular focus on coastal communities—catches the injustice, poignance, and possibility that these shifts present. Placekeeping will become a watchword going forward."—Bill McKibben, author, educator, environmentalist, and cofounder of 350.org "In this evocative critical sociology of climate adaptation and resilience, Summer Gray invites us to appreciate the struggles by which the least powerful try to stay in place. Comparing struggles for climate justice in the low-lying lands of Guyana and the Maldives, Gray reveals seawalls to be multivalent sites for people to negotiate colonial oppression, resist racial capitalism, maintain livelihoods, and fight for democracy and sovereignty. With no easy solutions to climate change as communities face complex experiences of attachment to place and the anxiety of anticipated loss, persistence in mutual support may be the best way to respond to global inequality, climate injustice, and uneven adaptation."—Mimi Sheller, author of Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene " In the Shadow of the Seawall renders and clarifies the stakes of important dilemmas surrounding climate change adaptation, with a particular focus on seawalls as infrastructures that both make and mark longer histories of inequality and power, operating at multiple scales. Summer Gray productively places the idea of placekeeping at the root of the discussion, allowing readers to see the contradictions and ambivalence attendant to holding on to where you are."—Rebecca Elliott, author of Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States “Based on extensive research in Guyana and the Maldives and countless interviews, Summer Gray’s In the Shadow of the Sea Wall documents the complexity of sea level rise. Gray takes into account the inequities created by colonialism that establish unequal footing, as well as the differing intentions of leaders and the wishes of communities impacted. A must-read for anyone interested in sea level rise and coastline communities.”—Christina Gerhardt, author of Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Seawall Entanglements 1. Coastal Disruption 2. The Strangled Shore 3. Lost Origins: Dreams of a Green Seawall 4. The Great Wall of Male´ 5. Contested Futures: The Hope of a Living Seawall Conclusion: The Dilemma of Placekeeping Methodological Appendix Notes Bibliography...
