Upcoming Public Talks
December 13:
The Logistics Counter-revolution: Fast Circulation, Slow Violence, and the Transpacific Empire of Capital
Keynote lecture, History and Political Economy Project, Boston University
Recent Public Talks
Sep 30, 2024:
The City and the Supply Chain: Fast Circulation, Slow Violence, Urban Futures
Erasmus University Rotterdam X The Independent School for the City, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
October 2, 2024:
·Seizing the Means of Imperialism: Indonesian Worker rebellions as Counterlogistical strategy
Copenhagen Business School, JURASOC seminar
October 11, 2024:
What does anti-imperial working-class internationalism mean today?
Keynote Address, Danish Society for Marxist Studies Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark
Featured in the Media
Podcasts and Videos
Charmaine Chua on Radio Web MACBA, project of The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art. In conversation with Anna Ramos and co-produced with Sonic Acts, in collaboration with W139, Amsterdam, July 19 2023.
“Logistics and Labor - Charmaine Chua on Amazon’s supply chains and workers’ resistance” The Workers’ Speculative Society podcast, July 18, 2023.
Charmaine Chua with Jacob Bolton and Miriam Matthiesen, Interview at Maritime Frictions, a Sonic Acts special event at Ruigoord, July 13 2023
Supply Chain Chaos, with Charmaine Chua Belabored Podcast, Dec 3 2021.
“Covid 19 & its Afterlives” or Chinese Virus, World Market revisited - Andy Liu in conversation with Charmaine Chua, NYU Skirball Center. Nov 3 2021
Logistics of Organizing ft. Charmaine Chua and Ted of Amazonians United, Left Reckoning podcast. April 29, 2021
Selected Work Quoted or featured in the news:
Noam Scheiber, “Gaza Debate Reopens Divisions Between Left-Wing Workers and Union Leaders,” Sep 2024
Luke Goldstein, “University of California Under Fire for Blackstone Investment” Feb 2023
Oliver Milman and Nina Lakhani, “Atlanta shooting part of alarming US crackdown on environmental defenders” The Guardian, Feb 2023
Noam Scheiber, “Amazon Is Everywhere. That’s What Makes It So Vulnerable.” May 2023
Robert Hitt, “Can Ocean Shipping Go Green?” The American Prospect, August 8 2022
Luis Feliz Leon, “Amazon Workers Defied Conventional Wisdom — And Won a Union” In These Times, April 13 2022
Amir Khafagy, “The Hidden Costs of Containerization”, The American Prospect, Feb 2 2022
Tammy Kim, “The Supply Chain Crisis is Creating a Rare Opportunity for Truck Drivers”, The New York Times, Nov 18 2021
Staff writers, “’This is Capitalism’: The Stark Reality of Amazon’s Supply Chain” TRT World, Sep 8 2021
Michael Bluhm “What does the ship stuck in the Suez Canal say about global trade?” An interview with Charmaine Chua, March 31, 2021