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Ian Kumekawa on Globalization As Told Through One Ship

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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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Content provided by Jessica Levy and Dylan Gottlieb, Jessica Levy, and Dylan Gottlieb. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Jessica Levy and Dylan Gottlieb, Jessica Levy, and Dylan Gottlieb or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://ppacc.player.fm/legal.

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.

  continue reading

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