Invisible Seasides

Invisible Seasides

A New Way of Redeeming a Utopia's Past and Imagining its Afterlife

Blackshaw, Tony

Taylor & Francis Inc

08/2025

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Introduction: understanding the modern seaside as a utopian phenomenon

PART I. Seaside utopia as a methodological problem

1. Deconstructing procedures of empirical investigation

2. Some alternative uses of leisure

3. The problem with social histories of the modern seaside and what to do about it

PART II. From birth to death and beyond: a short history of Seaside Utopia

4. The origins of Seaside Utopia

5. The democratization of Seaside Utopia

6. The end of Seaside Utopia

PART III. Post-utopias of the twenty-first century seaside

7. Seaside Utopia recollected and redesigned: retrotopia

8. The seaside's permanent present: redotopia

9. An aetiology of the seaside's hidden heterotopias

10. Representing seaside heterotopia: urbex performa-spheres and surfing value-spheres

11. In search of home: the private paradises of seaside oikotopia

Epilogue
Tony Blackshaw;Invisible Seasides;Re-theorising Our Relationship with the Coast;liquid modernity;Zygmunt Bauman;Retrotopia;Utopia;Eutopia;Heterotopia