Description
Working with nature - and not against it - is a global trend in coastal management. This ethnography of coastal protection follows the increasingly popular approach of "soft" protection to the Aotearoa New Zealand coast. Friederike Gesing analyses a political controversy over hard and soft protection measures, and introduces a growing community of practice involved in projects of working with nature. Dune restoration volunteers, coastal management experts, surfer-scientists, and Maori conservationists are engaged in projects ranging from do-it-yourself erosion control, to the reconstruction of native nature, and soft engineering "in concert with natural processes". With soft protection, Gesing argues, we can witness a new sociotechnical imaginary in the making.
Chapter
2. Natureculture Imaginaries
2.1 Making Multiple Natures
2.2 “Working with Nature”: A Sociotechnical Imaginary
3. The Context of the Coast
3.1 Coastal Change and the Bi-Cultural Nation
3.3 Para-Ethnographic Encounters and Para-Sites
PART II: BEYOND HARD PROTECTION? THE WAIHI BEACH CASE
4. Historical Transect of a Coastal Protection Conflict
4.1 “Have You Seen Waihi Beach?”
4.2 Coastal Protection History on a Changing Coastline
4.3 Who Owns the Beach? Defending the Local Coast
4.4 Narrowing Down the Case: The Environment Court in Search of “The Scientific Viewpoint” on the Conflict
5.1 Soft Options: “A Sob to the Greenies”
5.2 Civil Disobedience Continued: The Council Change Petition
5.3 “Things are Changing”: Tangata Whenua and the Cultural Pillar of Sustainability
5.4 Dystopia Waihi Beach: Enrolling the Seawall’s Materiality into Future Coastal Policymaking
PART III: MATERIAL PRACTICES OF WORKING WITH NATURE, OR: MAKING COASTAL NATURECULTURES
6. Restoring and Maintaining Nature: An Introduction to Coast Care
7. Working with Nature, Working with Communities
7.1 Keeping Busy: Senior Volunteers Doing Their Part
7.2 Volunteering as a Means of Working Towards Paid Work
7.3 Reclaiming the Public Space of the Beach: The Anti-Encroachment Project
7.3.1 “I am Concerned About the Plants, not the Politics”: Tensions Between Coast Care and Council Objectives
7.3.2 “Giving Something Back to the Community”: More Unpaid Labour on the Beach
7.3.3 “I Hope Prince Harry is Gonna Shake my Hand”: The Voluntourists
7.4 “It Makes You a Better Person”: Suzanne, a “Great Kiwi Example”
8. “It’s a Frontline of Defence” – Dune Restoration as Soft Protection
8.1 Erosion is a Natural Process
8.2 Do-It-Yourself Erosion Control: A “Kick Cowboy” Approach to Coast Care
8.3 Beyond Coast Care: Dune-Reshaping as an Alternative to Hard Protection?
8.4 Changing Paradigms: Coast Care as a “Soft Approach to Hard Issues”
8.5 Hibernating Through the Financial Crisis: The Mokau Spit Camping Ground Investment
8.6 Managing Coastal Naturecultures
8.7 Coast Care as Climate Change Adaptation?
8.8 “A Moving Target a Little Bit”: Coastal Restoration from Foredune to Backdune
9. Reconstructing Native Nature
9.1 Why Restore (Native) Nature?
9.2 Anthropological Perspectives on Native and Invasive Species
9.3 Postcolonial Natures: A History of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Coastal Dunes
9.4 Invasive Native Plants: Mangroves
9.5 Naturally Native: A Sustainable Business
9.6 Native Naturecultures
9.7 Universal Nature and Local Crisis: Maketu Spit
9.8 “Soft Is What We Can Do Ourselves”: Natureculture Restoration as Employment Project for Maori Youth
9.9 Working with Native Natures
10. Understanding Nature, Making Waves: Multipurpose Reefs
10.1 The Dream of Artificial Surfing Breaks
10.2 Towards Multifunctionality – A Soft Option?
10.3 Working Economically: Artificial Reefs as Coastal Development Projects
10.4 The Future: Managed Advance?
Conclusion: Working with Nature, Making Coastal Naturecultures
Working with Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand
：An Ethnography of Coastal Protection
( Kultur und soziale Praxis )
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