RESEARCH
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My dissertation examines the historical-geographic, political-economic, and social factors that helped to produce the global landscape of shipbreaking in Chittagong, Bangladesh. This geographic research investigates the dialectical relationship between the transnational and domestic scrapping markets, labor and steel economies in the places where shipbreaking has occurred the past three decades. In placing emphasis on the production of spaces for such markets, the dissertation research reveals a spatiality specific to shipbreaking, where global circulations of capital become dependent on producing spaces to absorb devalued commodities. Bangladesh plays an uneven yet critical role in this global story. This research employed archival data, photographic documentation, interviews, policy papers and reports, legal documents and scholarly research as methods and sources to tell this ‘toxic history of the present.’
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FIELDWORK
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Chittagong, Bangladesh 2014
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Singapore 2014
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London 2015
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Dubai 2016
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Bangladesh 2016
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