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“Sometimes, You Know, I Feel Happy When I See the Sea”: Landscapes of Race and Spatial Im/mobilities in a Seaside Town

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Drawing on large-scale empirical fieldwork, Burdsey demonstrates how the racialisation of space, locality, and mobility influences the lives of minority ethnic residents in a particular seaside town. The chapter explores the centrality of aspects of the built and “natural” environments in forging or inhibiting residents’ nascent connections with the town, and the significance of particular streets and neighbourhoods. The most problematic spaces, with regard to experiences of racism, are shown to be those that are deemed “traditional,” quaint, and popular with white tourists and day trippers, rather than those that are demonised routinely in the local popular imagination. Developing these ideas further, the chapter concludes by arguing for the integration of a temporal perspective with a spatial one when analysing the English seaside.

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Burdsey, D. (2016). “Sometimes, You Know, I Feel Happy When I See the Sea”: Landscapes of Race and Spatial Im/mobilities in a Seaside Town. In: Race, Place and the Seaside. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45012-8_6

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