The center of gravity of the maritime industry has progressively moved eastward over recent decades. South Korea is today a giant in both shipping and shipbuilding, but due to increased competition from China, its largely family
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Building ships while breaking apart
Container economies and the limits of chaebol capitalism
Elisabeth Schober
“Nowhere near Somalia, Mom”
On containerizing maritime piracy and being good men
Adrienne Mannov
merchant maritime industry. By retelling a series of events on a day spent with Hardik and his friends in his hometown, I show that through various acts of containment, they are the very nutrients that feed these seafarers’ families and the global maritime
Hege Høyer Leivestad and Johanna Markkula
worlds and moralities, kinship relations, and local exchange practices (see Schouten et al. 2019 ). Life and labor under seaborne capitalism The maritime industry has been referred to as “invisible” ( George 2013 ), and the sea as a “forgotten
Containing mobilities
Changing time and space of maritime labor
Johanna Markkula
ethnography is part of a decade-long research engagement with the maritime industry and with seafarers from various backgrounds, which itself has grown out of a lifelong involvement with containerized shipping as the daughter of a container ship captain