Abstract

This zine is written by and for people living in port surroundings, logistics nerds, resistant thinkers, and all those captivated by sea-land interconnectedness. It is a space for communities to reclaim their rights to territory facing the unsustainable effects of global maritime logistics. This zine shares people’s experiences and thoughts around inhabiting port territories – considered as critical zones between sea and land, whose destinies are increasingly dependent on transformations in global shipping.

The competition-based dynamics that are reconfiguring ports is demanding more resources from local communities, creating power imbalances, and increasingly becoming sites of threat and risk. Community resistance to predatorial port projects is an underrepresented narrative, often ignored by mainstream media and under-acknowledged in academic research. Against this backdrop, this zine celebrates the constellation of democratic expression through the community voices presented here, hoping to encourage counter- hegemonic ideas and collaborative connections.

Contributors

Humay Abdulghafoor, Geoff Law, Miriam Matthiessen, Adrián Villegas Jiménez, Antonio Velleca, Gina Hakim, Martin Tomov, & Benian Inal