The Corporeal Life of Seafaring - Laleh Khalili (Discourse series) fiction and create on the coast

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but he was also an uncommonly brilliant philosopher who was especially interested in the perennial question of how to live a good life

Jean Genet

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The Corporeal Life of Seafaring - Laleh Khalili (Discourse series) fiction and create on the coastThe body of the seafarer is a fulcrum upon which global systems of power, longstanding maritime traditions, and gendered and racialised pressures all rest. In this vital new essay, scholar Laleh Khalili draws on her ongoing research and experiences of travelling on cargo ships to explore the embodied life of these labourers. She investigates an experience riddled with adversities loneliness, loss, and violence, stolen wages and exploitative shipowners