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Charmaine Chua is Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2023 they were named a Freedom Scholar by the Marguerite Casey Foundation. Their work has been published in Jacobin, Theory & Event, and Historical Materialism.
Two books unmask the colossal shipping industry behind global trade.
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