In
Gramsci at Sea, author Sharad Chari asks how the environmental crisis of the oceans is linked to legacies of capitalism and imperialism across and within the oceans. Chari reads Antonio Gramsci as a thinker of the oceanic crisis, drawing on the philosopher’s prison notes and questions concerning waves of imperial power in the inter-war oceans of his time. Here, Chari is joined in conversation with Charne Lavery, Melissa Marschke, and Philippe Le Billon.
Sharad Chari is associate professor of geography and critical theory at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of
Gramsci at Sea and
Fraternal Capital.
Charne Lavery is senior lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. She is author of
Writing Ocean Worlds.
Melissa Marschke is professor at the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is author of
Life, Fish and Mangroves.
Philippe Le Billon is professor in the Department of Geography and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia. He is author of
Wars of Plunder.
Persons and works referenced:
-Fernando Coronil
-The Many-Headed Hydra by Marcus Rediker and Peter Linebaugh
-Meg Samuelson, “Thinking with Sharks,” Australian Humanities Review
-Matthew Shutzer
-Gavin Capps
-Damien Hirst’s shark tanks
-Moby Dick by Herman Melville (character of Pip)
-Ellen Gallagher
-Katherine McKittrick
-Drexciya
-John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea
-Kamau Brathwaite’s “tidalectics”
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