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  • Markkula, Johanna (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    This article uses ethnography from onboard container ships to show how seafarers as a workforce at the center of global capital circulation are increasingly confined inside their mobile worksites. Drawing on theories of ...
  • Markkula, Johanna; Leivestad, Hege (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion, 2021)
    This introduction proposes an anthropology of global cargo circulation by placing the maritime shipping industry at the center of global capitalism. With “container economies” we refer to the maritime global circulation ...
  • The ship 
    Markkula, Johanna (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    When Ever Given, one of the world’s largest container ships, ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal for six days in March 2021, it dramatically brought to light the fragile dependency of global trade on maritime infrastructures. ...