This article discusses crisis, and responses to crisis, in the global maritime industry. In order to stay ‘afloat’ in recession times, ship owners increasingly opt for Flags of Convenience. During research aboard a mixed nationality crewed cargo ship, I observed how a local crisis of a flag change impacted on the ambience and social cohesion onboard, and how crewmembers responded by reinforcing ties to their families back home. By showing how crises and their responses play out on multiple levels, the article argues that the ship's ‘local’ population, despite its apparent isolation, is deeply embedded in global events and processes.
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In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Aug 2011
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 297–304 (7 total)
Building ships while breaking apart
Container economies and the limits of chaebol capitalism
Elisabeth Schober
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
The Filipino Seafarer
A Life Between Sacrifice and Shopping
Gunnar M. Lamvik
The central theme in this article is a highlighting of the way in which the life of the Filipino seafarer continues to be interwoven with that of his family. The seafarers are portrayed as products of and for their families, both in the sense that the family appears as the major motive for leaving and that close kin o en play an intrinsic role as facilitators for the actual departure. Also the extensive and complex financial contribution of the seafarer towards his family, together with certain extraordinary knowledge obtained through his occupation find their place in the outline of the Filipino seafarer as a family-based enterprise.
The article also contains a brief theoretical outline of the labour migration phenomenon, besides a discussion of the coping aspect in a seafaring profession. Life at sea is portrayed as a highly repetitive and deprived universe, which demands the use of certain coping strategies in order to make daily life appear meaningful for the seamen. Crucial in the seafarers' struggle for significance lie metaphor and the gift.
In Anthropology in Action
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2012
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 22–31 (9 total)
“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
Enterprising Émigrés of the Channel Islands
French Economic Migration under “Refugeedom” during the French Revolution
Sydney Watts
Revolution, Jersey was sparsely populated with at most 20,000 inhabitants—a number that would double by the mid-nineteenth century with improvements to the port of St. Aubin. Long known for its maritime industry, Jerseymen sailed to Nova Scotia's Grand Banks
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 31–50 (20 total)
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