Container capitalism

Hege Høyer Leivestad

Chapter 3 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology, 2025, pp 147-151 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Global shipping is central to the fabrics of global capitalism. An emerging maritime anthropology engages with longer histories of global trade routes, the politics of shipping infrastructures and the implications of logistics labour at sea and at the sea-land interphase. This entry draws the contours of this new maritime anthropology, in which capitalism is re-understood through its maritime (dis)connections. Anthropological approaches to the global shipping industry offer deep ethnographic engagements with nodes in maritime supply chains. The entry proposes an anthropological take on what is framed as container capitalism. Containerised logistics and infrastructures shape labour, but also generate networks of value transactions, in addition to producing debates around the present and future of seafront livelihoods and urbanities. Three key-entrance points are introduced for exploring container capitalism: a) Container localities, b) Containerised mediation, and c) Container gigantism.

Keywords: Capitalism; Labour; Maritime anthropology; Ports; Shipping containers; Spain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035312566
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