Ships are both the glue and grease of the global economy. The merchant vessel of the late twentieth-century and early twenty first-century, combined with the technology of the big box container, is the means by which most commodities move around the worldÑalthough its central role and those of maritime spaces are all too often overlooked (Levinson, 2006; Sekula 2001). But ships themselves are also commodities and they too change value and move through value regimes. In the case of their commerc

Bibliographic Information

Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: Recycling Economies: Global Transformations of Materials, Values and Social Relations (2012)

Page Reference: 59-75

ISBN: 9781780321950