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

Chitra, V.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501777963 ISBN 13: 9781501777967

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2024

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501777963
• ISBN 13: 9781501777967
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280