D Burdsey
Biographic Data
| ID | 19471 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Burdsey |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Burdsey |
| SIGNATURE | BURDSEY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Brighton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5803-8915 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 262 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
There's a brand new dance’: 1 Fashion in English men's and women's professional football
This article explores the intricate and evolving relationship between English football, its male and female professional players, and the fashion industries from the inter-war years of the last century to the present day. Following a historical overview that engages with traditional understandings of classed masculinity, the article argues that some of the most significant aspects of the contemporary football and fashion relationship can be uncov…
What limits Muslim communities' access to nature? Barriers and opportunities in the United Kingdom
Recreation in protected areas can greatly contribute to health and wellbeing, but there exist significant demographic disparities in protected area use across Europe and North America. Minority ethnic groups, in particular, are often underrepresented in protected areas due to a variety of cultural, economic, and discriminatory barriers. Muslims are one of the fastest growing minority ethnic communities in Western countries but have received littl…
Beyond Crisis? Institutionalized Mediatization of the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2020 Olympic Games
Following the global “refugee crisis” of 2015, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) established the Refugee Olympic Team (ROT), providing opportunities for refugee athletes to compete at the 2016 and 2020 (2021) Summer Olympics. To examine the changing intertwinements between wider social dynamics and mediated constructions of refugees, this article considers the IOC’s representation of the ROT around the 2020 Games. With this aim, a catalog…
Representation Matters: Progressing Research in Plurisexuality and Bisexuality in Sport
Plurisexual is an umbrella term which refers to individuals who are, or who have the potential to be, attracted to more than one gender. Identities including bisexual, pansexual and fluid therefore fall under the category plurisexual. Academic research surrounding plurisexuality and sport has received limited academic attention in comparison to research based on homosexuality and sport. Existing academic research in relation to plurisexuality and…
Football and the sounds of the Black Atlantic
This article maps and analyses the relationship between football and black sound cultures in the UK. Employing a chronological and thematic approach, specifically, it examines the inclusion of football in post-Windrush calypsos, the appropriation of black music forms in football stadia, reggae as cultural critique of English football and British society, and the connections between transnational sounds and a diasporic footballing consciousness. T…
A refusal to (not) forget: (Post)Empire, transpolitics and locating diaspora in the anti-imperial consciousness of Howard Gayle
In 2016, black former professional footballer, Howard Gayle, was awarded an MBE, in recognition of his work in anti-racist education. He rejected the accolade due to its colonial associations and the experiences of his African ancestors under the British Empire. This article analyses and theorizes the geographical, cultural, political, historical and temporal contexts and consequences surrounding this refusal. While highlighting the fluid and rec…
Leisure and the racing of national populism
While leisure, race, and national populism have been minimally linked and theorized in the literature, we take this moment, during the global turn to national populism and conservative regimes, to center leisure and race in the politics of today. While theorizing the link to leisure and national populism, we center how the turn towards ethno-nationalist populism derives from the workings of race, alongside class, caste, and ethnicity, in various …
Moments of impact: Injury, Racialized Memory, and Reconciliation in College Football
Contemporary discussions about the societal impacts of American Football revolve around two substantive, and seemingly unrelated, phenomena: the protests by (primarily) African American NFL players
Leisure and Diaspora
This chapter explores the relationship between leisure and theories of diaspora. It proceeds by identifying the relative absence of the concept of diaspora in leisure studies in comparison to other fields within the social sciences. The chapter then considers some of the potential ways that leisure and diaspora might usefully come together, helping us to theorize the leisure practices and identities of migrant communities and their subsequent gen…
“Sometimes, You Know, I Feel Happy When I See the Sea”: Landscapes of Race and Spatial Im/mobilities in a Seaside Town
Drawing on large-scale empirical fieldwork, Burdsey demonstrates how the racialisation of space, locality, and mobility influences the lives of minority ethnic residents in a particular seaside town. The chapter explores the centrality of aspects of the built and “natural” environments in forging or inhibiting residents’ nascent connections with the town, and the significance of particular streets and neighbourhoods. The most problematic spaces, …
“It Still Felt Like I Was Going to the End of the Earth”: Race, Identity, and Community Formation in a Seaside Town
Through large-scale empirical fieldwork, Burdsey addresses the cultural politics underpinning minority ethnic identities and communities in a particular seaside resort. The chapter explores the diverse material, affective and emotional connections that exist for minority ethnic residents in the town, together with their myriad journeys and rationales for moving there. Through Burdsey’s notion of coastal liquidity , the chapter reveals the uneven,…
Introduction: Race, Place and the Seaside
This chapter introduces a series of vignettes around race, place, and the seaside that indicate powerfully many of the issues, themes, trends, experiences, engagements, and incongruities that are developed subsequently within the book. In this scene-setting narrative, Burdsey argues for placing race, racialisation, and racism at the centre, rather than at the periphery, of contemporary seaside studies. Burdsey then introduces the idea of coastal …
Conclusion: The Tides They Are A-Changin’?
Burdsey’s concluding remarks are presented in this chapter. This chapter reaffirms the book’s key contributions, and discusses the distinctiveness of the seaside as a site of racial formation and politics, racialised power and resistance, and conflict and conviviality. It also signposts directions for future research in the field of seaside studies. Finally, this chapter revisits the importance of coastal liquidity as an analytical concept, and i…
Shifting Sands? Theories and Concepts of Contemporary Life at the Water’s Edge
Burdsey explores a range of social, cultural, and political issues related to the English seaside, as they pertain to the specific themes of race, racialisation, and racism. The chapter identifies the diverse trajectories along which modern seaside resorts have travelled. It highlights how seemingly positive processes of regeneration can actually marginalise racialised groups, while deprivation and (perceived) mainstream political exclusion have …
“It’s Just the Culture of the Town. They’re Not Used to Different People Coming”: Racialised Inclusions and Exclusions in a Seaside Town
Burdsey uses empirical data to examine how minority ethnic residents recognise, and reflect on the implications of, multicultural changes in a particular seaside town over the past decade. These perceptions are contextualised within contemporary sociological and cultural geographical scholarship on integration, multiculture, and community cohesion. Foregrounding narratives and experiences of racism, this chapter contests the dominant assertion th…
Race, Whiteness, and the Spaces and Places of Seaside Leisure
Through an in-depth analysis of seaside leisure, pleasure, entertainments, and amusements, Burdsey argues that these features provide important contexts and stimuli for the articulation of race, racism, and whiteness in this setting. Yet, paradoxically, they also contribute to the failure to acknowledge the racialised nature of the seaside and coast. The chapter revolves around two principal leisure foci: first, it discusses how racialised themes…
Between the City and the Sea: Race, Ethnicity, and Space at the Periphery
This chapter makes the case for including the distinct spaces of the seaside in contemporary spatial studies of race, racialisation, and racism outside the metropolis. Analysing the extant sociology and cultural geography literature on race and ethnicity in rural and suburban locations, and in other “new” spaces of multiculture, Burdsey highlights its failure to consider the importance of those geographical settings that lie on the coast. By way …
Race, Place and the Seaside
This is the first academic monograph to focus exclusively on issues of race, ethnicity, whiteness and multiculture at the English seaside.
One Guy Named Mo: Race, Nation and the London 2012 Olympic Games
The triumphal track and field performances of British distance runner, Mo Farah, at the London 2012 Olympic Games were lauded both for their athletic endeavor and for their perceived validation of the rhetoric of ethnic and cultural diversity and inclusion in which the Games were ensconced. By analyzing coverage of the athlete’s achievements in mainstream British newspapers, this article presents a more complicated and critical reading of the rel…
Whiteness and Leisure
Un/making the British Asian Male Athlete: Race, Legibility and the State
This article explores the social construction of the British Asian male sport star. It foregrounds an analysis of the racial state, primarily its biopolitical function in (re)affirming racialised models of citizenship and contemporary hierarchies of belonging. Drawing on conceptualisations of legibility, the article argues that this relationship between race and the state is necessary to understand the processes by which such athletes are made in…
One week in October: Luis Suárez, John Terry and the turn to racial neoliberalism in English men’s professional football
This article explores two significant incidents of racism – involving Luis Suárez and John Terry – from the 2011–2012 English Premier League football season. In particular, it analyses and contextualises the reactions and responses articulated by key stakeholders within the football industry. Discursive themes were employed by these individuals as a means of trying to mitigate and/or exonerate the actions of Suárez and Terry, to question the vera…
Playing through time and space: Sport and South Asian diasporas
Sitting at her dining table, Aneet, a female Sikh American doctor, shared her experiences of living in Nashville, Tennessee. At various points during the interview her 6′5′′ son, Rajeet, and her 5′1
Violence and Racism in Football: Politics and Cultural Conflict in British Society, 1968–1998
September 2012 was, in many ways, a watershed month for English football. Following two high-profile on-pitch incidents the previous season, a House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee re
The foreignness is still quite visible in this town’: Multiculture, marginality and prejudice at the English seaside
In recent years it has become apparent that experiences of integration, conflict, conviviality and prejudice between different ethnic groups can be found not just in towns and cities but increasingly in peripheral, non-urban areas too. While a small, but significant, body of literature has addressed the impact of these trends in rural environments, studies of seaside and coastal areas remain scarce. Burdsey's article responds to this omission thr…
That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore: Racial Microaggressions, Color-Blind Ideology and the Mitigation of Racism in English Men’s First-Class Cricket
This article investigates the presence and effects of racial microaggressions in English first-class cricket. Drawing on interview data with British Asian players, it not only highlights players’ experiences of racism, but also identifies their tendency to downplay the repercussions of some of the forms that this prejudice takes. The analysis demonstrates that color-blind ideology is so entrenched in contemporary Western sport that its reproducti…
One of the lads'? Dual ethnicity and assimilated ethnicities in the careers of British Asian professional footballers
The broad focus of this article is on the under-representation of British Asians in English professional football. Specifically, it concentrates on the select group of British Asians that have played, or are currently playing, professional football and examines the significance of dual ethnicity, and processes of cultural assimilation and Anglicization in this phenomenon. Emanating from an extensive period of ethnographic fieldwork and using the …
If I Ever Play Football, Dad, Can I Play for England or India: British Asians, Sport and Diasporic National Identities
The overall scope of this article is to examine how young British Asians experience and articulate recent transformations in popular notions of 'race', nation and culture. The context for the analysis is sport, which acts as a prominent arena in which these variables are contested and, indeed, embodies the complexities of national affiliations and identities.The article argues that despite continuing ethnically exclusive manifestations of 'Englis…
Obstacle race? ‘race’, racism and the recruitment of British Asian professional footballers
Burdsey examines the ways in which British Asian footballers perceive 'race' and racism as factors influencing their under-representation in the professional game. He argues that issues of 'race' and racism in football often manifest themselves in forms that are far more complex, nuanced and subtle than are recognized within dominant discourses. Using their oral testimonies, Burdsey demonstrates that the attitudes and opinions of British Asian fo…
Role with the Punches: The Construction and Representation of Amir Khan as a Role Model for Multiethnic Britain
This article examines the rapid rise to fame of teenage British Asian boxer Amir Khan following his silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games, and provides a critical discourse analysis of the way that he was subsequently constructed and represented by politicians and the media as a role model for multiethnic Britain. The analysis demonstrates that in the periods directly after both the 2004 Olympic Games and the 7 July 2005 London bombings, the maj…
Race, Place and the Seaside
This is the first academic monograph to focus exclusively on issues of race, ethnicity, whiteness and multiculture at the English seaside.
The foreignness is still quite visible in this town’: Multiculture, marginality and prejudice at the English seaside
In recent years it has become apparent that experiences of integration, conflict, conviviality and prejudice between different ethnic groups can be found not just in towns and cities but increasingly in peripheral, non-urban areas too. While a small, but significant, body of literature has addressed the impact of these trends in rural environments, studies of seaside and coastal areas remain scarce. Burdsey's article responds to this omission thr…
One Guy Named Mo: Race, Nation and the London 2012 Olympic Games
The triumphal track and field performances of British distance runner, Mo Farah, at the London 2012 Olympic Games were lauded both for their athletic endeavor and for their perceived validation of the rhetoric of ethnic and cultural diversity and inclusion in which the Games were ensconced. By analyzing coverage of the athlete’s achievements in mainstream British newspapers, this article presents a more complicated and critical reading of the rel…
British Muslim experiences in English first-class cricket
British Muslims (the majority of whom are of South Asian background) remain largely excluded from professional sport in the UK. A notable exception is cricket, where significant representation has been achieved in a playing capacity. Based on in-depth interviews, this article examines the experiences of British Muslim players in the contemporary English first-class game. In particular, it addresses the role and significance of Islam in their spor…
Forgotten fields? Centralizing the experiences of minority ethnic men’s football clubs in England
This essay provides a socio‐historical analysis of British Asian and black men’s amateur football clubs in England. It argues that, from their early development to the present day, they have been far more than simply sites of recreation and leisure, for they have taken on vital social functions in terms of fighting racism, forging cultural resistance and integrating the wider community. The essay critiques dominant football histories and contends…
No Ball Games Allowed? A Socio-Historical Examination of the Development and Social Significance of British Asian Football Clubs
This article seeks to dispel the myth that participation in football is anathema to British Asians. It argues that, not only has football become an increasingly popular leisure activity for many young, male British Asians since the subcontinental migrations of the 1960s, but also that British Asian football clubs possess a wider social significance. Firstly, the article provides a socio-historical examination of the construction of British Asians…
Leisure and the racing of national populism
While leisure, race, and national populism have been minimally linked and theorized in the literature, we take this moment, during the global turn to national populism and conservative regimes, to center leisure and race in the politics of today. While theorizing the link to leisure and national populism, we center how the turn towards ethno-nationalist populism derives from the workings of race, alongside class, caste, and ethnicity, in various …
Contested conceptions of identity, community and multiculturalism in the staging of alternative sport events: A case study of the Amsterdam World Cup football tournament
This article provides a case study of the Amsterdam World Cup (WK Amsterdam), an annual amateur football competition and multicultural festival. Placing the event within the context of Dutch integration policy, it examines the differing and contested conceptions of identity, community and multiculturalism articulated by participants and organisers and, more broadly, the role that ‘alternative’ events play in resisting or reinforcing dominant poli…
What limits Muslim communities' access to nature? Barriers and opportunities in the United Kingdom
Recreation in protected areas can greatly contribute to health and wellbeing, but there exist significant demographic disparities in protected area use across Europe and North America. Minority ethnic groups, in particular, are often underrepresented in protected areas due to a variety of cultural, economic, and discriminatory barriers. Muslims are one of the fastest growing minority ethnic communities in Western countries but have received littl…
Strangers on the Shore? Racialized Representation, Identity and In/visibilities of Whiteness at the English Seaside
This article presents an alternative reading of the English seaside - one that centralizes race, specifically the effects of whiteness and racialized notions of belonging and exclusion. It addresses three main issues. First, it provides a theoretical discussion of the racialized production of social space and place, and outlines the implications for minority ethnic groups at the seaside. Second, it offers an examination of the manner in which dis…
Representation Matters: Progressing Research in Plurisexuality and Bisexuality in Sport
Plurisexual is an umbrella term which refers to individuals who are, or who have the potential to be, attracted to more than one gender. Identities including bisexual, pansexual and fluid therefore fall under the category plurisexual. Academic research surrounding plurisexuality and sport has received limited academic attention in comparison to research based on homosexuality and sport. Existing academic research in relation to plurisexuality and…
Playing through time and space: Sport and South Asian diasporas
Sitting at her dining table, Aneet, a female Sikh American doctor, shared her experiences of living in Nashville, Tennessee. At various points during the interview her 6′5′′ son, Rajeet, and her 5′1
A refusal to (not) forget: (Post)Empire, transpolitics and locating diaspora in the anti-imperial consciousness of Howard Gayle
In 2016, black former professional footballer, Howard Gayle, was awarded an MBE, in recognition of his work in anti-racist education. He rejected the accolade due to its colonial associations and the experiences of his African ancestors under the British Empire. This article analyses and theorizes the geographical, cultural, political, historical and temporal contexts and consequences surrounding this refusal. While highlighting the fluid and rec…
Un/making the British Asian Male Athlete: Race, Legibility and the State
This article explores the social construction of the British Asian male sport star. It foregrounds an analysis of the racial state, primarily its biopolitical function in (re)affirming racialised models of citizenship and contemporary hierarchies of belonging. Drawing on conceptualisations of legibility, the article argues that this relationship between race and the state is necessary to understand the processes by which such athletes are made in…
Making a difference: The power of football in the community
This paper seeks to contribute to the debate on the changing relationship between professional football clubs and their local populations by examining ‘football in the community' schemes and the emergence of the ‘community stadium'. In particular, the paper challenges popular arguments about the annexation of ‘community' to the continued commodification of football, instead arguing that football has a salience that can be used to support inclusio…
Beyond Crisis? Institutionalized Mediatization of the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2020 Olympic Games
Following the global “refugee crisis” of 2015, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) established the Refugee Olympic Team (ROT), providing opportunities for refugee athletes to compete at the 2016 and 2020 (2021) Summer Olympics. To examine the changing intertwinements between wider social dynamics and mediated constructions of refugees, this article considers the IOC’s representation of the ROT around the 2020 Games. With this aim, a catalog…
Football and the sounds of the Black Atlantic
This article maps and analyses the relationship between football and black sound cultures in the UK. Employing a chronological and thematic approach, specifically, it examines the inclusion of football in post-Windrush calypsos, the appropriation of black music forms in football stadia, reggae as cultural critique of English football and British society, and the connections between transnational sounds and a diasporic footballing consciousness. T…
Violence and Racism in Football: Politics and Cultural Conflict in British Society, 1968–1998
September 2012 was, in many ways, a watershed month for English football. Following two high-profile on-pitch incidents the previous season, a House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee re
Obstacle race? ‘race’, racism and the recruitment of British Asian professional footballers
Burdsey examines the ways in which British Asian footballers perceive 'race' and racism as factors influencing their under-representation in the professional game. He argues that issues of 'race' and racism in football often manifest themselves in forms that are far more complex, nuanced and subtle than are recognized within dominant discourses. Using their oral testimonies, Burdsey demonstrates that the attitudes and opinions of British Asian fo…
One of the lads'? Dual ethnicity and assimilated ethnicities in the careers of British Asian professional footballers
The broad focus of this article is on the under-representation of British Asians in English professional football. Specifically, it concentrates on the select group of British Asians that have played, or are currently playing, professional football and examines the significance of dual ethnicity, and processes of cultural assimilation and Anglicization in this phenomenon. Emanating from an extensive period of ethnographic fieldwork and using the …
No Ball Games Allowed? A Socio-Historical Examination of the Development and Social Significance of British Asian Football Clubs
This article seeks to dispel the myth that participation in football is anathema to British Asians. It argues that, not only has football become an increasingly popular leisure activity for many young, male British Asians since the subcontinental migrations of the 1960s, but also that British Asian football clubs possess a wider social significance. Firstly, the article provides a socio-historical examination of the construction of British Asians…
If I Ever Play Football, Dad, Can I Play for England or India: British Asians, Sport and Diasporic National Identities
The overall scope of this article is to examine how young British Asians experience and articulate recent transformations in popular notions of 'race', nation and culture. The context for the analysis is sport, which acts as a prominent arena in which these variables are contested and, indeed, embodies the complexities of national affiliations and identities.The article argues that despite continuing ethnically exclusive manifestations of 'Englis…
Role with the Punches: The Construction and Representation of Amir Khan as a Role Model for Multiethnic Britain
This article examines the rapid rise to fame of teenage British Asian boxer Amir Khan following his silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games, and provides a critical discourse analysis of the way that he was subsequently constructed and represented by politicians and the media as a role model for multiethnic Britain. The analysis demonstrates that in the periods directly after both the 2004 Olympic Games and the 7 July 2005 London bombings, the maj…
Contested conceptions of identity, community and multiculturalism in the staging of alternative sport events: A case study of the Amsterdam World Cup football tournament
This article provides a case study of the Amsterdam World Cup (WK Amsterdam), an annual amateur football competition and multicultural festival. Placing the event within the context of Dutch integration policy, it examines the differing and contested conceptions of identity, community and multiculturalism articulated by participants and organisers and, more broadly, the role that ‘alternative’ events play in resisting or reinforcing dominant poli…
Forgotten fields? Centralizing the experiences of minority ethnic men’s football clubs in England
This essay provides a socio‐historical analysis of British Asian and black men’s amateur football clubs in England. It argues that, from their early development to the present day, they have been far more than simply sites of recreation and leisure, for they have taken on vital social functions in terms of fighting racism, forging cultural resistance and integrating the wider community. The essay critiques dominant football histories and contends…
British Muslim experiences in English first-class cricket
British Muslims (the majority of whom are of South Asian background) remain largely excluded from professional sport in the UK. A notable exception is cricket, where significant representation has been achieved in a playing capacity. Based on in-depth interviews, this article examines the experiences of British Muslim players in the contemporary English first-class game. In particular, it addresses the role and significance of Islam in their spor…
That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore: Racial Microaggressions, Color-Blind Ideology and the Mitigation of Racism in English Men’s First-Class Cricket
This article investigates the presence and effects of racial microaggressions in English first-class cricket. Drawing on interview data with British Asian players, it not only highlights players’ experiences of racism, but also identifies their tendency to downplay the repercussions of some of the forms that this prejudice takes. The analysis demonstrates that color-blind ideology is so entrenched in contemporary Western sport that its reproducti…
Sport and Challenges to Racism
Jonathan Long and Karl Spracklen (eds), SPORT AND CHALLENGES TO RACISM, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011, xv + 283 pp., £55.00 (cloth) In their seminal account of race and sport in Britain, Ben Carringt
Strangers on the Shore? Racialized Representation, Identity and In/visibilities of Whiteness at the English Seaside
This article presents an alternative reading of the English seaside - one that centralizes race, specifically the effects of whiteness and racialized notions of belonging and exclusion. It addresses three main issues. First, it provides a theoretical discussion of the racialized production of social space and place, and outlines the implications for minority ethnic groups at the seaside. Second, it offers an examination of the manner in which dis…
Making a difference: The power of football in the community
This paper seeks to contribute to the debate on the changing relationship between professional football clubs and their local populations by examining ‘football in the community' schemes and the emergence of the ‘community stadium'. In particular, the paper challenges popular arguments about the annexation of ‘community' to the continued commodification of football, instead arguing that football has a salience that can be used to support inclusio…
Playing through time and space: Sport and South Asian diasporas
Sitting at her dining table, Aneet, a female Sikh American doctor, shared her experiences of living in Nashville, Tennessee. At various points during the interview her 6′5′′ son, Rajeet, and her 5′1
Violence and Racism in Football: Politics and Cultural Conflict in British Society, 1968–1998
September 2012 was, in many ways, a watershed month for English football. Following two high-profile on-pitch incidents the previous season, a House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee re
The foreignness is still quite visible in this town’: Multiculture, marginality and prejudice at the English seaside
In recent years it has become apparent that experiences of integration, conflict, conviviality and prejudice between different ethnic groups can be found not just in towns and cities but increasingly in peripheral, non-urban areas too. While a small, but significant, body of literature has addressed the impact of these trends in rural environments, studies of seaside and coastal areas remain scarce. Burdsey's article responds to this omission thr…
One week in October: Luis Suárez, John Terry and the turn to racial neoliberalism in English men’s professional football
This article explores two significant incidents of racism – involving Luis Suárez and John Terry – from the 2011–2012 English Premier League football season. In particular, it analyses and contextualises the reactions and responses articulated by key stakeholders within the football industry. Discursive themes were employed by these individuals as a means of trying to mitigate and/or exonerate the actions of Suárez and Terry, to question the vera…
One Guy Named Mo: Race, Nation and the London 2012 Olympic Games
The triumphal track and field performances of British distance runner, Mo Farah, at the London 2012 Olympic Games were lauded both for their athletic endeavor and for their perceived validation of the rhetoric of ethnic and cultural diversity and inclusion in which the Games were ensconced. By analyzing coverage of the athlete’s achievements in mainstream British newspapers, this article presents a more complicated and critical reading of the rel…
Whiteness and Leisure
Un/making the British Asian Male Athlete: Race, Legibility and the State
This article explores the social construction of the British Asian male sport star. It foregrounds an analysis of the racial state, primarily its biopolitical function in (re)affirming racialised models of citizenship and contemporary hierarchies of belonging. Drawing on conceptualisations of legibility, the article argues that this relationship between race and the state is necessary to understand the processes by which such athletes are made in…
“Sometimes, You Know, I Feel Happy When I See the Sea”: Landscapes of Race and Spatial Im/mobilities in a Seaside Town
Drawing on large-scale empirical fieldwork, Burdsey demonstrates how the racialisation of space, locality, and mobility influences the lives of minority ethnic residents in a particular seaside town. The chapter explores the centrality of aspects of the built and “natural” environments in forging or inhibiting residents’ nascent connections with the town, and the significance of particular streets and neighbourhoods. The most problematic spaces, …
“It Still Felt Like I Was Going to the End of the Earth”: Race, Identity, and Community Formation in a Seaside Town
Through large-scale empirical fieldwork, Burdsey addresses the cultural politics underpinning minority ethnic identities and communities in a particular seaside resort. The chapter explores the diverse material, affective and emotional connections that exist for minority ethnic residents in the town, together with their myriad journeys and rationales for moving there. Through Burdsey’s notion of coastal liquidity , the chapter reveals the uneven,…
Introduction: Race, Place and the Seaside
This chapter introduces a series of vignettes around race, place, and the seaside that indicate powerfully many of the issues, themes, trends, experiences, engagements, and incongruities that are developed subsequently within the book. In this scene-setting narrative, Burdsey argues for placing race, racialisation, and racism at the centre, rather than at the periphery, of contemporary seaside studies. Burdsey then introduces the idea of coastal …
Conclusion: The Tides They Are A-Changin’?
Burdsey’s concluding remarks are presented in this chapter. This chapter reaffirms the book’s key contributions, and discusses the distinctiveness of the seaside as a site of racial formation and politics, racialised power and resistance, and conflict and conviviality. It also signposts directions for future research in the field of seaside studies. Finally, this chapter revisits the importance of coastal liquidity as an analytical concept, and i…
Shifting Sands? Theories and Concepts of Contemporary Life at the Water’s Edge
Burdsey explores a range of social, cultural, and political issues related to the English seaside, as they pertain to the specific themes of race, racialisation, and racism. The chapter identifies the diverse trajectories along which modern seaside resorts have travelled. It highlights how seemingly positive processes of regeneration can actually marginalise racialised groups, while deprivation and (perceived) mainstream political exclusion have …
“It’s Just the Culture of the Town. They’re Not Used to Different People Coming”: Racialised Inclusions and Exclusions in a Seaside Town
Burdsey uses empirical data to examine how minority ethnic residents recognise, and reflect on the implications of, multicultural changes in a particular seaside town over the past decade. These perceptions are contextualised within contemporary sociological and cultural geographical scholarship on integration, multiculture, and community cohesion. Foregrounding narratives and experiences of racism, this chapter contests the dominant assertion th…
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