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AAU 4.3 The Corporeal Life of Commerce at Sea


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Third lecture of the Aula Árabe Universitaria IV program, by Laleh  Khalili, professor of international politics at Queen Mary University of  London.

With the participation of Ángel Rodríguez  García-Brazales, coordinator of the Degree in Philosophy, Politics and  Economics at the UAM and director of the Master's Degree in Economic  Intelligence and Geopolitics at the same university, Berta  Álvarez-Miranda, lecturer in Sociology at the UCM, and Olivia Orozco,  Casa Árabe's Training and Economics coordinator, who will moderate the  session.

The conference is being held in collaboration with with  the Bachelor in International Relations and the Master in European Union  and the Mediterranean: historical, cultural, political, economic and  social basis of the Complutense University Madrid and the Degree in  Philosophy, Politics and Economics of the Autonomous University of  Madrid.

It can be seen live on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/zuH3iFYtuJs

The  everyday life of seafarers steaming across Arab seas and serving Arab  ports today is shaped not only by their daily interactions with one  another and with their officers (who are often of other nationalities),  but also by the corporeal transformations they experience in their  sensory relationship with the sea and the stars, the weather, and the  technology around them. The body of the seafarer is the fulcrum upon  which global and workplace asymmetries of power, long traditions and  conventions of seafaring, and gendered and racialised subjectivities all  conjoin in complex and unexpected ways.

The conference will speak  not only of wages stolen and hunger ships managed by rapacious and  unregulated shipping companies or the affective power of loneliness and  loss at sea, but also the ephemeral moments of joy and solidarity forged  aboard ships, and of the pleasures of arrival at ports. In focusing on  the corporeal life of commerce at sea, we’ll pay heed to exhortations of  feminists and scholars of racial capitalism to centre the lives of  those forgotten or dismissed at the conjuncture of capital accumulation  and raced and gendered hierarchies.

Further information: https://en.casaarabe.es/event/the-corporeal-life-of-commerce-at-sea

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