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Introduction: Towards a Sociology of Coasts

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In this introduction, the premise for the sociology of the coast is laid out. Firstly, the chapter will show using Australia as a case study that the coast is a significant space historically, socially and culturally that demands sociological investigation. It will then distinguish this away from other areas such as maritime or ocean sociology by suggesting the coast is a distinct space. The chapter concludes by introducing the material that the book will cover in brief detail.

Harriet felt she absolutely must live by the sea, so they wandered along a wide, rutted space of deep sand, looking at the “cottages” on either side. They had impossible names. But in themselves, many of them were really nice. Yet there they stood like so many forlorn chicken-houses, each on its own oblong patch of land, with a fence between it and its neighbour […] Harriet absolutely wanted to live by the sea.

(Lawrence 1923[1970], 20)

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Osbaldiston, N. (2018). Introduction: Towards a Sociology of Coasts. In: Towards a Sociology of the Coast. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48680-6_1

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