In the last year I also wrote 3 pieces for the LRB: “We Blitzed It: Inhabiting the Oil World” on the everyday entanglements of oil “In Sharm-El-Sheikh” on COP27 and one of my favourites, ...
Over the course of the last year, I have had such immense fun doing a bunch of different podcasts and other interviews and presentations. Below is a list with links: The fabulous Ottoman History ...
The Economist did an interesting podcast on the containership and they spoke to me and a bunch of very cool people: https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2021/09/13/thinking-inside-the-box-the-story...
https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/big-ship-capitalism-with-laleh-khalili/
https://thegamming.org/2021/05/05/big-ship-capitalism-with-the-dig-podcast/
7 April 2021 Okay, so the big boat is no longer blocking the Suez Canal. But that doesn’t mean we can go back to ignoring the global networks of capitalism and colonialism that make our world r...
https://thegamming.org/2021/04/11/this-machine-kills-podcast/
30 March 2021 30. A Marine History of Capitalism: An Interview with Laleh Khalili Before the container ship crisis in the Suez Canal, Grace spoke with Laleh Khalili, Professor of International...
https://thegamming.org/2021/04/11/a-world-to-win-podcast-with-grace-blakeley/
I can talk about the Suez Canal forever — and here I did! 😀 The Suez Canal Is a Lifeline for Global Capitalism AN INTERVIEW WITHLALEH KHALILI The Suez Canal blockage inspired a thousand meme...
https://thegamming.org/2021/03/30/interview-with-the-jacobin-about-the-suez-canal/
It was thrilling to be prepped to talk to Amy Goodman on DemocracyNow about Ever Given. Here is the interview video and transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2021/3/29/ever_given_suez_canal_gl...
https://thegamming.org/2021/03/30/talking-to-democracy-now-about-ever-given/
So on 23 March a massive 400-metre long ship, the Ever Given, blocked the Suez Canal. I wrote a piece for the Washington Post Monkey Cage blog about the event. Big ships were created to avoid rel...
https://thegamming.org/2021/03/30/a-short-op-ed-on-the-ever-given-blockage-of-the-suez-canal/
I was thrilled to publish a piece for the London Review of Books on China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Instead of wanting to look at it through the eyes of the Chinese or -more egregiously- US p...
https://thegamming.org/2021/03/11/a-review-essay-on-the-belt-and-road-initiative-in-the-lrb/