Into the quiet and the light : water, life, and land loss in south Louisiana /
In southern Louisiana, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, water, and the history of controlling it, is omnipresent. Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana glimpses the vulnerabilities and possibilities of living on the water during an ongoing c...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, an imprint of Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation,
[2024].
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| Summary: | In southern Louisiana, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, water, and the history of controlling it, is omnipresent. Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana glimpses the vulnerabilities and possibilities of living on the water during an ongoing climate catastrophe and the fallout of the fossil fuel industry, past, present and future. The book sustains our physical, mental and emotional connections to these landscapes through a collection of photographs by Virginia Hanusik. Framing the architecture and infrastructure of southern Louisiana with both distance and intimacy, introspection and expansiveness, this work engages new memories, microhistories, anecdotes and insights from scholars, artists, activists and practitioners working in the region. Unfolding alongside and in dialogue with Hanusik's photographs, these reflections soberly and hopefully populate images of southern Louisiana's built and natural environments, opening up multiple pathways that defy singularity and complicate the disaster-oriented imagery often associated with the region and its people. In staging these meditations on water, life and land loss, this book invites readers to join both Hanusik and the contributors in reading multiplicity into southern Louisiana's water-ruled landscapes. |
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| Item Description: | Maps on endpapers. |
| Physical Description: | 179 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781941332825 194133282X |