[-empyre-] The Shore Line

[Elizabeth Miller]

Invisible Geographies has been on my mind now for some time and I was so thrilled to be a part of this program to rethink visible and invisible, constructed versus natural, and all the other ways we imagine geography.  My goal in making The Shore Line was to create a collaborative story of resilience and climate justice. I was drawn to the coast as a subject, as a metaphor and even a method - as a way to challenge narratives in addressing climate-disasters. The coast, where the land meets the sea and where runaway development meets rising waters, where disaster meets resilience.  The surge of coastal tourism, the increased dumping of industrial waste, and the unsustainable growth of fossil fuels are threatening the very ecosystems that protect us from storms and sea level rise. But rather than dwell on disaster, I was inspired by Anna Tsing’s notion of collaborative survival and her provocative invitation to observe what survives in the midst of disaster.

Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Miller
Visiting Knight Chair, University of Miami
Spring, 2018, School of Communication
Cell: 786-406-9352

Professor in Communication Studies Concordia University, Montreal

Director: theshorelineproject.org<http://theshorelineproject.org>
Co-Author: Going Public: The Art of Participatory Practice<https://www.ubcpress.ca/going-public> (UBC Press, 2017)
http://goingpublicproject.org/

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