Towards a Sociology of the Coast Our Past, Present and Future Relationship to the Shore /

• Main Author: Osbaldiston, Nick (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Sociology, Urban.; Urban geography.; Cities and towns-History.; Ethics.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Urban History.

This book seeks to understand the coast as a place that has deep significance both historically and sociologically. Using several case studies in Australia, the author uses Max Weber's approach to rationalisation to understand the different ways coasts have been interpreted throughout modern hi...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Methods and Theory
• Chapter 3. The Premodern Coast
• Chapter 4. The Modern Coastal Explorer: Matthew Flinders
• Chapter 5. Modernity meets Lifestyle: The Historical Case Study of Noosa
• Chapter 6. Lifestyle Coasts Today: Contemporary Noosa
• Chapter 7. Modernity meets Adventure: The Historical Case Study of Surfers Paradise
• Chapter 8. Adventure Coasts Today: Contemporary Surfers Paradise
• Chapter 9. The Future Coasts.