Regional archaeological survey and historical investigation of the Maritime Landscape of the Geelong Foreshore Region. Report submitted to Heritage Victoria.
Various environmental issues and concerns of Bangladesh have been addressed here. Pitfalls of development projects, poor enforcement of environmental laws, EIA, biodiversity conservation in the Sundarbans, ship breaking industry, tea... more
Various environmental issues and concerns of Bangladesh have been addressed here. Pitfalls of development projects, poor enforcement of environmental laws, EIA, biodiversity conservation in the Sundarbans, ship breaking industry, tea workers' plight, diplomatic negotiations on climate change, ozone layer depletion are discussed here.
Mülakat: Filiz Yavuz, 21.06.2021 "Bir işçi iş cinayetinde ölüyorsa, en az 6 işçinin de meslek hastalığından öldüğünü varsayıyorlar. Odman Türkiye'de bir yılda iş cinayetlerinde 2 bin kişinin ölümünün belgelendiği ve aslında her yıl... more
Mülakat: Filiz Yavuz, 21.06.2021
"Bir işçi iş cinayetinde ölüyorsa, en az 6 işçinin de meslek hastalığından öldüğünü varsayıyorlar. Odman Türkiye'de bir yılda iş cinayetlerinde 2 bin kişinin ölümünün belgelendiği ve aslında her yıl Türkiye'de en az 12 bin kişinin meslek hastalıklarından öldüğü bilgisini veriyor.
Memlekette sakin bir gün geçirmek namümkün, yine endişeliyiz. Bu kez söküm için Brezilya'dan Türkiye'ye gelecek bir uçak gemisiyle ilgili endişelerimiz. Söz konusu İzmir Aliağa olunca "Leyla ve Mecnun" karakterlerinden İsmail Abi gibi naif olamıyoruz maalesef. Gemilerin gelişini umutla bekleyemiyoruz. Körfez'den açıklara bakıp onlara el sallayamıyoruz heyecanla.
The dominant political-economic approaches to global trade flows known as global value chains and global production networks offer powerful insights into the coordination and location of globally stretched supply chains, in particular... more
The dominant political-economic approaches to global trade flows known as global value chains and global production
networks offer powerful insights into the coordination and location of globally stretched supply chains, in particular from global South to North. By way of both conceptual and empirical challenge, this paper highlights flows of end-of-life goods from the global North towards the global South. This involves the disassembly and destruction of goods to recover secondary resources for further rounds of commodity production. Global
recycling networks take things of rubbish value (often spent or end-of-life goods) and turn them back into resources in other places and production networks. They operate not through adding value, but by connecting different regimes of value. The paper does not set out a new conceptual framework, but asks what challenges the rekindling of value in used goods creates for global commodity chain analysis and what insights those
approaches bring to looking at waste flows. The examples of used clothing and end-of-life merchant ships are mobilised to illustrate the dynamics of global recycling networks and to challenge prevailing commodity chain approaches in three key areas – supply logics and crosscutting networks, value and materiality, and inter-firm governance. We argue that resource recovery engenders highly complex and brokered forms of governance that relate to practices of valuing heterogeneous materials and that contrast markedly with the modes of coordination dominated by big capital typical of global production networks for consumer goods.
The next few years are predicted to see a boom in the ship recycling industry, for reasons that include the financial slowdown at the global level, and the passing of the Recycling of Ships Act, 2019 and ratification of the Hong Kong... more
The next few years are predicted to see a boom in the ship recycling industry, for reasons that include the financial slowdown at the global level, and the passing of the Recycling of Ships Act, 2019 and ratification of the Hong Kong Convention at the domestic level. This paper, the second in the two-part series on ship recycling, engages with the implications of this boom, both on the lives of workers and the environment. It additionally contextualises the politics of waste – specifically, the global waste trade, and highlights the possibility of a refocus from ship recycling to ship building in the country.
Ship recycling marks the end of the life cycle of a ship. The underlying principle of recycling activity is to support sustainable development of environment by recycling every year, on an average, as much as 3.6 million tonnes of steel... more
Ship recycling marks the end of the life cycle of a ship. The underlying principle of recycling activity is to support sustainable development of environment by recycling every year, on an average, as much as 3.6 million tonnes of steel scrap globally. Despite the importance of ship recycling industry to major recycling countries, it has always been plagued with health, safety and environmental concerns. Such con-cerns, to some extent, arise due to inappropriate ship design. This paper explains that a detailed study of the ship recycling process can give feedback to the design stage of the life cycle of a ship. A link between first and last stage of the life cycle of a ship would allow not only the effective disposal of hazardous materials and reduction of recycling costs but also improve ship designs pertaining to the needs and requirements of the end user i.e. ship recycling yards.
We report for the first time asbestosis among shipbreaking workers of Sitakunda in Bangladesh who were exposed to asbestos during ship-based and beachbased operations for at least 10 years. Asbestosis was present among 35% of workers.... more
We report for the first time asbestosis among shipbreaking workers of Sitakunda in Bangladesh who were exposed to asbestos during ship-based and beachbased operations for at least 10 years. Asbestosis was present among 35% of workers. Years of work (>20) and forced vital capacity (<80% of predicted) were significantly associated with the disease. Currently, global ship-breaking operations are mainly concentrated in the Indian subcontinent, and Bangladesh has the majority share. Ninety per cent of domestic steel is produced in the ship-breaking operations in Bangladesh and is an important contributor to the economy. It also gives employment to more than 100 000 people. It is imperative to medically check up all the workers for benign and malignant diseases causally related to asbestos among these vulnerable population of workers.
A survey of a ship-breakers yard on Corio Bay, Geelong (Victoria, Australia). This survey is part of a wider project to analyse the archaeological signatures of ship-breaking sites in Australia. The article briefly documents the layout... more
A survey of a ship-breakers yard on Corio Bay, Geelong (Victoria, Australia). This survey is part of a wider project to analyse the archaeological signatures of ship-breaking sites in Australia. The article briefly documents the layout of the industrial site, one of three possible sites in the area. Article appeared in Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology Newsletter December 2008