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There is no other book like Beach Politics, a welcome and long overdue contribution to scholarship on the politics and inequities of public space. Expansively interdisciplinary and global in scope, the chapters across this volume provide an unmatched exploration of the histories and political economies that shape, limit, privatize, regulate, racialize, and surveil transnational seashores from Argentina’s urban beaches to South Africa’s waterfront vacation spaces to Albuquerque’s recreational lakes. -- Karla Slocum, author of Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West Setha Low poignantly shows how beaches have often become terrains for confrontations over ownership and usage, inclusion or exclusion, and publicness versus privatization. Beach Politics tells a fascinating story: how abutting property owners, beach goers, community groups and planners, in the US and around the world, often tussle for control of “their” beach and how these “beach politics” truly represent struggles over democracy. -- Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA

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Setha Low is Distinguished Professor of Environmental Psychology, Geography, Anthropology, and Women's Studies, and Director of the Public Space Research Group at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has been awarded a Getty Fellowship, a NEH fellowship, a Fulbright Senior Fellowship, a Future of Places Fellowship and a Guggenheim for her ethnographic research on public space in Latin America and the United States. Her most recent books are Spatializing Culture: The Ethnography of Space and Place, Anthropology and the City, Spaces of Security (with M. Maguire), and Why Public Space Matters.

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