Abstract
Against the guiding principle of the Western capitalist contemporaneity, of an essential separation - humans and nature, languages, groups - initiatives such as the revival of beach-related memories by older people prove to be more than an alternative to historical rationality: they are activities that combine ethics and ecology to discuss memory processes as citizenship tools. From this perspective, the article discusses how a sociocultural and ecological practice carried out in 2023 on a Portuguese beach touches on fundamental dimensions of community ethics and is concerned with the inclusion of older citizens, as well as it reveals perceptions of beach-going that are marked by gender and class differentiations.
| Translated title of the contribution | Memories by the sea: towards an ecological ethics of narratives about the beaches |
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| Original language | Portuguese |
| Pages (from-to) | 51-71 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Revista ARA |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 17 |
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| Publication status | Published - 28 Mar 2025 |
Keywords
- Memory
- Ecology
- Beach
- Portugal
- Ethics