Ian Kumekawa on Globalization As Told Through One Ship

Ian Kumekawa on Globalization As Told Through One Ship

How do you write the history of something as abstract, as placeless, and as vast as the globalization that has remade our world over the past several decades?

If you're Ian Kumekawa, you make those immaterial forces concrete by telling the story of one object: a hulking 94-meter-long steel barge he calls "The Vessel."

From housing for oil roughnecks in the North Sea, to a barracks for British soldiers in the Falklands, to a jail docked on a Manhattan pier, the Vessel reveals how the murky world of offshore capitalism is in fact embodied in tangible things. It always involves real people living and working in real places.

This one ship, then, helps us to see the too-often-invisible material reality of global capitalism at the close of the twentieth century.

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Consider the chicken nugget. Many of us can see its round shape in our minds, and recall its salty taste. But what is its history? And what does this history have to tell us about food and capitalism,...

1 Tammi 201849min

Laura Briggs on Reproductive Politics

Laura Briggs on Reproductive Politics

Popular discussions of U.S. politics often distinguish "social" issues from "economic" issues. Laura Briggs shows us how looking at recent U.S. history through the lens of reproductive politics challe...

2 Joulu 201747min

Lane Windham on Union Organizing in the 1970s

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Since the most recent election, we've heard a lot of news about the so-called working class. But all too often, this term seems to refer to white men instead of the diverse group of people who actuall...

2 Marras 201748min

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