In the Shadow of the Seawall journeys to the low-lying lands of Guyana and the Maldives to grapple with the existential dilemma of seawalls alongside struggles to resist displacement. With the gathering momentum of ocean instability wrought by centuries of injustice, seawalls have become objects of conflict and negotiation, around which human struggles for power and resistance collide. As frontline communities address ruination by envisioning environmentally sustainable alternatives to seawalls, the concept of placekeeping emerges-a justice-oriented framework for addressing adaptation and the global dangers of coastal disruption. Drawing on ethnographic observation and interviews, Summer Gray shows how seawalls are entrenched in relationships of power and entangled In processes of making and keeping place.