V. Chitra

Drawing Coastlines (eBook, ePUB)

Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501777974
• Artikelnr.: 72528767

Autorenporträt

V. Chitra is an anthropologist and artist based at the Australian National University. Her work intersects environmental studies, science and technology studies, and visual studies.

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