Join us for the next webinar with Hege Høyer Leivestad from the University of Oslo, who will give a presentation entitled “Cargo capitalism: the port revisited”. She will discuss it with Jatin Dua from the University of Michigan.
Abstract: What happens if we use cargo as an ethnographic prism for understanding the dynamics of global capitalism? Our accounts of ports have for long embraced romanticized narratives of trade and transit and, more recently, presented dehumanized accounts of massive infrastructures. This presentation asks what can be gained from approaching the port through mobile cargo and the forms of human and material (dis) connections it can carry.
Bio: Hege Høyer Leivestad is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. She has published on mobility theory and methodology, homemaking and social class, logistics and shipping. Hege’s current book project deals with labour and port-city relationships in Algeciras, Spain.