Beneath the Bridge, the Beach

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ID2958856
AuthorsIrmelin Joelsson (corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume37
Issue2
Pages143-165
Publication date2025-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePublic Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0899-2363 • E-ISSN: 1527-8018
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/08992363-11767205
OpenAlexW4408693855
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited26

Cities like Dar es Salaam are crucibles for a heterogeneous crowd of unformed potential where urban futures can arrive from any quarter, bridge, or beach. Rending visible the affordances of a place known as Minazini Beach, this essay provisionally "gathers" a set of actions and qualities of the beach that elucidates the eternal return of the tide and the potentialities its movements provide. Thinking with the East African mkoko - mangrove - indigenous to the East African littoral, suggests an errant ethnography intertwined with the moon and tide that encourages a Swahili rhizome of thinking difference, multiplicity, comparison, and relation. Understanding the beach as foundational of life and the economic activities that makes up life, this essay argues that the future of the beach becomes urgent to every location eclipsed by similar tidal conditions across the majority world

American Environmental and Regional History · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Geology · Oceanography

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