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      Time on the Waterline: Coastal Reclamations and Seawalls in Sydney and Japan

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      Journal of Contemporary Archaeology
      Equinox Publishing

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          Coastal reclamations may represent humanity's overreaching lust for land, but from whereI stand in 2015 on the beach below the reclamation at Elizabeth Bay on Sydney Harbour,gazing at the sandstone seawall, what compels my attention is the way this reclamationis giving up its substance to the sea. As the geological time of the wall engages with therhythmic time of the sea, my own geosubjectivity comes momentarily into view. Recollectionof the reclamation park of the 1980s as a gay cruising site sparks a considerationof how open minds and touching bodies in that decade form a background conduciveto closer human-nonhuman relations in the present decade. Finally, moving to the SetoInland Sea, Japan, to reflect on the time of concrete, I examine the historical move fromstone to concrete as the favoured material for seawall construction. <br />

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          Journal
          Journal of Contemporary Archaeology
          JCA
          Equinox Publishing
          2051-3429
          2051-3437
          June 4 2018
          May 30 2018
          : 5
          : 1
          : 53-65
          Affiliations
          [1 ]Western Sydney University
          Article
          10.1558/jca.33282
          2c1e4e9f-8a84-4471-bcb1-a5eb05253ac5
          © 2018
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