1st Edition
Invisible Seasides A New Way of Redeeming a Utopia’s Past and Imagining its Afterlife
Prologue
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
Index
Biography
Tony Blackshaw is Emeritus Professor of Leisure Studies and Sociology at Sheffield Hallam University. He is the author of many books, including Re-Imagining Leisure Studies (2017), Leisure (2010), and Leisure Life: Myth, Masculinity and Modernity (2003).
