Drawing Coastlines
eBook - ePub

Drawing Coastlines

Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore

  1. 294 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Drawing Coastlines

Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. List of Abbreviations
  3. Note on Names, Transliteration, and Comics
  4. Introduction: Sightlines
  5. 1. Terranean Coasts: Mapping, Accuracy, and Drawing the Landward Edge
  6. 2. Tide Lines and Lives: Fishing and Drawing a Salty Shore
  7. 3. Anomalous Landscapes: Infographics, Extreme Weather, and Urban Infrastructure
  8. 4. Unfolding Plans: Drawing, Time, and Spatial Politics
  9. 5. “This Is Not a Dead Zone”: Pollution, Archives of Marine Life, and Multispecies Encounters
  10. Conclusion: Drawing Coastlines
  11. Notes and Credits for the Comics
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography