Drawing Coastlines
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Drawing Coastlines

Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore

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.

Détails du livre

Éditeur
Cornell University Press
Publication year
2024
Collection
Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
Langue
English
ISBN
9781501777974
LAN
6463b51f8522

Formats

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