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I am currently working on several projects clustered around issues related to energy transition , oceanic-urbanism, infrastructure, social reproduction, and uneven development underpinned by the transformations in the global maritime sector.
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Dissertation
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“Market Making: Crises and the Global Production of Shipbreaking in Chittagong, Bangladesh” pivoted from crises—political, economic, and social—to interrogate the historical-geographic development of this particular market. Using a multi-sited ethnographic approach in six global regulatory as well as financial centers of the maritime world, the research found that shipbreaking is embedded in a global network of markets—labor, raw materials, and financial that is underpinned by the dynamic relationship between global economic restructuring and the political-economy of a ‘developing’ Bangladesh. The project examined a nested set of secondary findings that included empirical analyses of: ship finance and devaluation since the 1970s; the actors, spaces, and financial and legal mechanisms used to make the global market work; as well as how the environmental and labor conditions characteristic of shipbreaking pushed activists and global agents towards decades of actions that culminated in the first international “ship recycling” convention. Ultimately, my research shows how this market is constituted with the global ship demolition market. This is a dynamic relationship that integrates shipbreakers and their daily lives into global cycles of accumulation and overaccumulation.
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Fieldwork
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Chittagong, Bangladesh 2016
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Dubai 2016
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London 2015
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Chittagong, Bangladesh 2014
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Singapore 2014
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