Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics and author of 'Sinews of War & Trade', joins us for a conversation on land reclamation, dredging and the role of maritime infrastructures as conduits of the movement of technologies, capital, people and cargo. Addressing the significant bodies of water around which a politics has taken shape, Laleh discusses the tension of the sea as a romanticised incredible and abstract space, yet also a space of death, exploitation, slavery and colonialism, highlighting the geoeconomical inequalities in the world.

Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-laleh-khalili

This conversation was recorded on 30th June 2021

Speakers: Luke de Noronha, Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity & Postcolonial Studies, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre // Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of London

Producer: Kaissa Karhu

Editor: Amie Liebowitz

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