Description
Book SynopsisIn the Shadow of the Seawall journeys to the low-lying lands of Guyana and the Maldives to grapple with the existential dilemma of seawalls alongside struggles to resist displacement. With the gathering momentum of ocean instability wrought by centuries of injustice, seawalls have become objects of conflict and negotiation, around which human struggles for power and resistance collide. Through stories of colonial ruination and green seawalls, the concept of placekeeping emergesa justice-oriented framework for addressing adaptation and the global dangers of coastal disruption at the front lines of climate change. Drawing on ethnographic observation and interviews, Gray shows how seawalls are entrenched in relationships of power and entangled in processes of making and keeping place.
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Seawall Entanglements
1. Coastal Disruption
2. The Strangled Shore
3. Lost Origins: Dreams of a Green Seawall
4. The Great Wall of Malé
5. Contested Futures: The Hope of a Living Seawall
Conclusion: The Dilemma of Placekeeping
Methodological Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
