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OverviewDrawing 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: V. ChitraPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781501777967ISBN 10: 1501777963 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 15 December 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of Contents"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"ReviewsAuthor InformationV. Chitra is an anthropologist and artist based at the Australian National University. Her work intersects environmental studies, science and technology studies, and visual studies. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |