Alumna, History
Thesis Title: Turning the Tide: The Politics of Land and Leisure on the California and Mexican Coastlines in the Age of Environmentalism
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Robert Self
Karl Jacoby Matt Garcia |
About
Sara Fingal's dissertation explores social, political, and cultural conflicts over the coastline between the 1920s and the 1980s at the local, state, and transnational levels. In four case studies, the project examines how multiple interests fought for control of the shoreline in California and Mexico. This project considers the coast as a space potentially understood as a public resource and private property, at once nature or wilderness and urban or suburban. Struggles over control of the coastline raise crucial questions about public rights and social justice within a national economy defined by private consumption.
