The “Adaptive Management” of a New Nature along the Southern English Coastline

Abstract

This article explores the tensions between different understandings about how best to manage a stretch of coastline that is threatened by a new piece of land that emerged out of the sea. It looks at the kinds of political worlds this environmental change has engendered and the dynamic shaping of people and places through such change. It argues that in managing the edges of the sea and land in this area, people also forge themselves as new kinds of subjects in a political landscape that is shifting and changing. Contrasting views about how best to manage these changes illuminate the politics of how best to adapt and manage different environments and the people who shape and are shaped by them.

Posthumanist participation: Beyond extractivism in the Dutch Wadden Sea Area

“…Our analysis makes explicit how amphibiousness is political, because not all flows are equally desired and allowed. Scholarship on amphibiousness has demonstrated that the boundaries between and relations among coastal bodies (including land and sea, but also humans, sand, grass, waves and responsibility regulations) come into being through more-than-human practices (Jensen and Morita 2015;Empson 2017;Pauwelussen 2021;Hill 2020). At Ameland, the different entanglements involving Rijkswaterstaat, the NAM, and Amelanders produced different coastal entanglements that allowed for some flows and disabled others.…”

“…What sand is depends on its relations, including those with humans (Kothari, 2021;Kothari & Arnall, 2020). This point is illustrated by architect Zumthor's (2006) (Empson, 2017;Kothari & Arnall, 2020). Therefore, humansand relations are important aspects for the participatory process to take into account (Whatmore, 2002(Whatmore, , 2013.…”