Living and Drowning on the Shore of Blue Capital
How do coastal cities and infrastructures sustain global capital? Can ‘blue capital’—solutions that are offered as alternatives to hydrocarbon economies—provide a way out of our carbon-intensive economies? Laleh Khalili put this idea to the test as she examined how blue capital may in fact exacerbate the situation. This lecture explored how extraction, transportation and logistics contribute to the gradual drowning of our cities and infrastructures.
About the Speaker
Laleh Khalili is a professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter and the author or editor of 6 books including most recently Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (Verso 2020) and The Corporeal Life of Seafaring (Mack Books 2024).