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On why we dig the beach: Tracing the subjects and objects of the bucket and spade for a relational materialist theory of the beach
Citation
Franklin, A, On why we dig the beach: Tracing the subjects and objects of the bucket and spade for a relational materialist theory of the beach, Tourist Studies: An International Journal, 14, (3) pp. 261-285. ISSN 1468-7976 (2014) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2014 The Author
DOI: doi:10.1177/1468797614536331
Abstract
This article investigates the origins of the bucket and spade as a foundational element in the
relational materialism of the beach as a space of vacationing. Using the intensification of Romantic
beach painting through the early nineteenth century alongside prose descriptions and the
development of photography at the beach, the article locates more precisely than ever before
how the bucket and spade derived from the cohabitation of the beach by pioneering Romantic
travellers and ethnic fishing cultures in which the former fell under the spell of the latter. It traces
material connections and relations that transformed both creating new visitor subjectivities around
an active engagement with the multiple affordances of the beach and a transformation of local
peasant cultures from fishing and foraging to livelihoods based on the provisioning and facilitation
of vacationing. The bucket and spade holds more significance than its role as a sandcastle-building
tool; seen through the tidal changes and the different angles of photography, and especially through
their relational engagement with the beach, the agency of the bucket and spade is revealed.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | The beach, bucket and spade, relational materialism and tourism, seaside |
Research Division: | Studies in Human Society |
Research Group: | Other Studies in Human Society |
Research Field: | Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Cultural Understanding |
Objective Group: | Other Cultural Understanding |
Objective Field: | Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Franklin, A (Professor Adrian Franklin) |
ID Code: | 93576 |
Year Published: | 2014 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 12 |
Deposited By: | Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2014-08-08 |
Last Modified: | 2017-11-06 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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