Shifting borders and dangerous liminalities: The case of Rye Bay

Abstract

Jean Didier Urbain (2003) writes ‘the beach is a place where society puts itself on show’. Andrews (2011), Weber (2010), and Rogelja (2004) have re-worked this sharp observation for the broader fields of the anthropology of tourism and coastal studies. Whilst Andrews has described how British charter tourism reveals features of British society itself, Weber and Rogelja have shown how readings of the seascapes of Montenegro and Slovenia point towards contours of the societies, cultures, histories, and politics of the countries and regions that they border. The present chapter builds on, and develops, these lines of thought by offering a reading of some of the material sites and associated symbolic markers of a stretch of ‘liminal landscape’ in South Eastern England, namely the coast of Rye Bay between the town of Hastings in East Sussex and Dungeness in Kent.

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