In this paper, I show how for indigenous fishers in Mumbai, climate change is the outcome of a centuries long process materialized by colonial modes of intervening in, and “improving” cities with infrastructures that accrete and desiccate its amphibious volumes.
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In this paper I dwell in the ways that indigenous fishers in Mumbai navigate the natures of the city. I suggest that for fishers, climate change is not only a recent or a global phenomenon manifest in the models and data of climate scientists or municipal administrators. It is not just a gathering of global effects, materialized in the city–such as rising CO2 concentrations, sea surface temperatures, and the ecologies these bring into being. Climate, for Koli fishers, is understood as the outcome of a centuries long process materialized by colonial modes of intervening in, and “improving” cities with infrastructures that accrete and desiccate its amphibious volumes.