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Ports and the politics of visibility: An interview with Laleh Khalili

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dc.creatorVélez-Serna, María
dc.creatorStauff, Markus
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-17T07:14:17Z
dc.date.available2023-07-17T07:14:17Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractIn this interview with Laleh Khalili, her book Sinews of War and Trade (Verso, 2020) is the starting point to discuss how ports – through their material procedures and their media representations – contribute to the uneven visibility of the global economy and labor conditions. The book weaves a richly-detailed history of places along the Arabian peninsula that have been transformed by oil and finance, imperialism and nationalism, from the traditional dhow traders to the modern container ports and oil terminals. In the interview Khalili details how some ports have become a spectacle that enacts the technological sublime and caters to tourism, while also obscuring less attractive operations such as bulk cargo and scrap. Their managed visibility offers insights into the infrastructural power relationships they emerge from and reproduce. This was particularly salient in the context of supply chain crises during COVID, which also exacerbated problems of labour exploitation and the restriction of human movement. Ports can also be key nodes of protest through tactical interruption of capitalist logistics. Next to critical analysis, Khalili suggests literary imagination as a procedure that allows for a more complex understanding of the layered realities of ports.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19743
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20955
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNECS
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectglobal economyen
dc.subjectlabor conditionsen
dc.subjectportsen
dc.subjectmediaen
dc.subjectcapitalismen
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.subject.ddcddc:700
dc.subject.workSINEWS OF WAR AND TRADE
dc.titlePorts and the politics of visibility: An interview with Laleh Khalilien
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local.coverpage2023-09-18T16:08:36
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://necsus-ejms.org/ports-and-the-politics-of-visibility-an-interview-with-laleh-khalili/
local.source.epage34
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitle#Ports
local.source.spage16
local.source.volume12
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