'The Changing Face of the Seaside? Race, Whiteness and Identity'
10 March 2017, 10.30-17.00
Sixty Eight, Middle Street, Brighton, BN1 1AL
Free event and workshop organized by the Centre for Research in Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics, University of Brighton.
The contemporary English seaside is, according to many observers, characterised by a range of social, cultural and political changes. But why is it changing, and what are the influences and processes that underpin these shifts? Conversely, which aspects of coastal life are more resistant to social transformation and utilise a worldview that looks back rather than forward? This workshop asks us to consider specifically the role that race and racialisation play within these developments. The Centre for Research in Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics at the University of Brighton invites you to join us for a day of discussion on pressing questions about the seaside past, present and future, including:
• What are the drivers and implications of greater ethnic and migratory diversity at the seaside?
• Why have UKIP and Britain’s exit from the European Union found support in coastal towns, and why has the coast taken on a symbolic role for the Far Right?
• How has the seemingly innocent space of the beach become a significant landscape both in the geopolitics of migration and refuge, and in the exclusion of racialised groups (as seen, for example, across the Channel in France)?
• How can the seaside become a place of resistance, resilience, solidarity and intercultural conviviality for its various communities?
The day will start with guided reading focused discussions on 'Race, Place and the Seaside: Postcards from the Edge' (Burdsey, 2016) followed by provocations and discussions by:
Dr. Daniel Burdsey (University of Brighton)
Prof. Sally Munt (University of Sussex)
Dr. Anamik Saha (Goldsmiths University)
Dr. Jason Lim (University of Brighton)
The event will be followed by a wine reception and launch of new books written/edited by the Centre’s members:
'Ecological Crisis, Sustainability and the Psychosocial Subject: Beyond Behaviour Change' by Matthew Adams (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
'Intergenerational Mobilities: Relationality, Age and Lifecourse' edited by Lesley Murray and Susan Robertson (Routledge, 2017)
'Race, Place and the Seaside: Postcards from the Edge' by Daniel Burdsey (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
'Routledge Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities' edited by Gavin Brown and Kath Browne (Routledge, 2016)
Please book here – http://shop.brighton.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/life-health-physical-sciences/research-conferences/the-changing-face-of-the-seaside-race-whiteness-and-identity
Programme - https://www.brighton.ac.uk/_pdf/research/sec/secp-changing-face-of-seaside-10-mar-2017.pdf
Queries can be directed to the Centre Administrator, Suzanne Armsden [log in to unmask]
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