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The Corporeal Life of Seafaring - Laleh Khalili (Discourse series) biography to sneak backstage and interrogateThe 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