Publications

In this new article Vinzenz Baumer Escobar, Elisabeth Schober, Elizabeth Sibilia, Giorgos Poulimenakos and Hege Høyer Leivestad how a comparative ethnographic analysis of container ports can be put forward in order to ground supply chains and logistics in particular socio-cultural histories, material infrastructures, political ecologies, and the politics of labour.

In this forum edited by Hege Høyer Leivestad and Elisabeth Schober, published in History and Anthropology various authors focus on maritime passages, their interruptions, and on the multifaceted figures that accompany them.

In this essay published in Roadsides, Hege Leivestad explores the piling up of cargo and paperwork in a global port. 

Colossal containerships and the crisis in global shipping

Escalating Ship Sizes and their Consequences.