Maritime mobilities / edited by Jason Monios and Gordon Wilmsmeier.

"The central concerns of mobilities research - exploring the broader context and human aspects of movement - are fundamental to an understanding of the maritime freight transport sector. Challenges to the environment, attempts at more sustainable practices, changes in the geoeconomic system, political power, labour, economic development and governance issues are all among the topics covered in this book. The aim of this volume is to address issues of maritime transport not only in the simple context of movement but within the mobilities paradigm. The goal is to examine negative system effects caused by blockages and inefficiencies, examine delays and wastage of resources, identify negative externalities, explore power relations and identify the winners and losers in the globalised trade system with a particular focus on the maritime network. Maritime Mobilities therefore aims to build a bridge between "traditional" maritime academic approaches and the mobilities paradigm. This volume is of great importance to those who study industrial economics, shipping industries and transport geography"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction: Applying the mobilities paradigm to the maritime sector / Jason Monios and Gordon Wilmsmeier -- Part 1: Geographic and institutional mobilities. Critical geographies of the ocean : Mobilities, placefulness and maritime relationalism / Basil Germond and Celine Germond-Duret -- Ports as capitalist spaces / Jason Monios and Gordon Wilmsmeier -- How people green the port / Kristianne Hendricks and Peter Hall -- Part 2: Economic mobilities. Off shore : the sustainable city and its logistical costs / Boris Vormann and Patrick Dedauw -- Costs and benefits of mobility : the case of Chinese seafarers / Lijun Tang and Gang Chen -- "Cruise to the edge" : how 1970s prog-rock dinos found a safe haven on the cruise ship / Markus Hesse -- Part 3: Sustainable mobilities. Ballast water and harmful aquatic organism mobilities / Matej David and Stephan Gollasch -- Mobilities of waste, value and materials in the shadow of the maritime transport system : a case study of the Pakistani ship breaking industry / Lars Bomhauer-Beins and Anke Strüver -- Part 4: Induced and unproductive mobilities. Unproductive mobilities and maritime system capacity / Jason Monios and Gordon Wilmsmeier -- Before the "hangover" / Gordon Wilmsmeier, Marta Gonzalez-Aregall and Ricardo J. Sánchez -- The economic development effect of a transhipment port : the case of Gioia Tauro / Mario Genco, Emanuela Sirtori and Silvia Vignetti -- The unproductive and induced mobility of empty container repositioning in peripheral regions / Jason Monios and Yuhong Wang.

Includes bibliographical references and index.