Invisible Seasides: A New Way of Redeeming a Utopia’s Past and Imagining Its Afterlife

Invisible Seasides positions the seaside as a lens for understanding lived utopia, pinned in a certain place, an immovable feature in a landscape where our hopes and fears continue to unfold. Wide-ranging in theme, it brings a double perspective, past and present, to bear on how we understand contemporary seaside experience.

Tony Blackshaw is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Leisure Studies 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).