Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore (Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge)

By: V. Chitra

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Synopsis: Drawing Coastlines reveals the ways that technical images such as weather infographics, sea-level projections, and surveys are fast remaking Mumbai's coasts and coastal futures. They set in place infrastructural interventions, vocabularies of development and conservation, and their lines and dots inscribe material conditions of existence and horizons of loss that entangle life forms. V. Chitra interlaces graphics and text by redrawing scientific images, the moments of their construction, the choices and consequences of what gets drawn and what does not, and how images are seen, performed, and manifest. These visual reconstructions show how images remake human-nonhuman relationships, arrange urban politics, and materialize landscapes in complex and contradictory ways. The multimodal format of Drawing Coastlines engages in the politics of its context where words and images combine to create coastal worlds, and to find, through a creative anthropology, openings to build new forms of care in the midst of crisis.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 280 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781501777974
Related ISBNs:: 9781501777967, 9781501777981
Publisher:: Cornell University Press
Date of Addition:: 12/15/24
Copyrighted By:: Cornell University,
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Social Studies, Earth Sciences, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.