V. Chitra

Drawing Coastlines

Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This book is about how technoscientific drawings create coasts. It dwells on the lives of these images from Mumbai and follows surveyors, fishing communities, planners, amateur meteorologists, marine life advocates, and their visual projects. The book's ethnographic encounters and visual analyses show how drawings transform the coast into an object of management, infrastructure, fisheries, an urban edge, and an ecology"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781501777967
• ISBN-10: 1501777963
• Artikelnr.: 71715985

Autorenporträt

V. Chitra

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Sightlines 1. Terranean Coasts: Mapping
Accuracy
and Drawingthe Landward Edge 2. Tide Lines and Lives: Fishing and Drawing a Salty Shore 3. Anomalous Landscapes: Infographics
Extreme Weather
and Urban Infrastructure 4. Unfolding Plans: Drawing
Time
and Spatial Politics 5. "This Is Not a Dead Zone": Pollution
Archives of Marine Life
and Multispecies Encounters Conclusion: Drawing Coastlines