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Chitra, V. 1982-

Drawing coastlines : climate anxieties and the visual reinvention of Mumbai's shore / V. Chitra. - xii, 268 pages 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments;
List of Abbreviations;
Note on Names, Transliteration, and Comics;
Introduction: Sightlines;
1 Terrancan Coasts: Mapping, Accuracy, and Drawing the Landward Edge;
2. Tide Lines and Lives: Fishing and Drawinga 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;
Notes and Credits for the Comics;
Notes;
Babliography.

"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"--

ISBN: 9781501777967

LCCN: 2024008882

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Nature--Effect of human beings on--India--Mumbai.
Coasts--Social aspects--India--Mumbai.
Charts, diagrams, etc.--Social aspects--India--Mumbai.
Coastal mapping--Social aspects--India--Mumbai.
Climatic changes--Social aspects--India--Mumbai.

LC Class. No.: GF75 / .C475 2024

Dewey Class. No.: 333.91