Front and Back Covers, Volume 37, Number 3. June 2021

Anthropology TodayVolume 37, Issue 3 p. i-ii CoversFree Access Front and Back Covers, Volume Number 3. June 2021 First published: 04 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12648AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text full-text accessPlease review our Terms Conditions of Use check box below share version article.I have read accept the Wiley Online Library UseShareable LinkUse link a this article with your friends colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Abstract back cover caption, volume 37 issue PLASTIC POSSIBILITIES The front depicts an art installation by South Korean artist Choi Jeong Hwa, also known as ‘the plastic alchemist’, at ‘Your Bright Future’ exhibition in Los Angeles County Museum Art (LACMA), 2009. For is most artificial material that same time common element today's landscape. Hailed quintessential for design, invention relentless production, often associated post-WWII industrial growth Western world. And yet, wading through ‘plastic islands’ oceans, standing knee-deep landfills, choking on incinerated fumes, spectacular ‘utopia’ beginning register differently. In issue, Tridibesh Dey Mike Michael present everyday ‘alchemies’, lived realities assembled waste India. They take us into household Dey's parents Kolkata familiarize creative repurposing techniques performed items like bottles, containers, carrier bags, etc., which are supposed be thrown away after ‘single use’. Like recycled baskets Hwa's installation, inventive deployment used plastics here point emerging socio-materialities plastics, might, turn, inform inspire different futures, leading collaborative kinship more-than-human living plastics. These emergent relations embedded within more extensive socio-economic, political ecological configured contemporary India around plastic's consumption management. delicate economies poorer urban households risk under recent government reforms management, neo-liberalization work ‘toxic’ externalities produced large-scale extractive infrastructures. CONTAINER SHIPPING Above: satellite image containership Ever Given from Evergreen Marine shipping line stuck Suez Canal, Egypt, 24 March 2021. Below: ship safely moored port Rotterdam, 9 2020. Given, ultra-large containership, obstructed Canal six days 2021, thereby accruing estimated loss world economy US $400 million per hour. Getting canal its way Asia not only brought seemingly smooth flow maritime transportation via central waterway hold, but sparked great public interest role industry – ever-growing container vessels functioning global capitalism today. ‘Politics scale’ Hege H⊘yer Leivestad Elisabeth Schober remind one many ‘box ships’ sailing world's oceans have, over years, undergone size. reasons expansion no longer primarily located scale, authors argue, rather, enmeshed complex processes far-flung places across Featuring story HMM Algeciras, currently largest terms container-carrying capacity, takes christening shipyard, past Spanish town named after. Tracing public-private partnership Algeciras being, attention paid mounting social costs these, require massive (and public) investments infrastructures land-sea interface. Bigger always better. industry, we arrived where unsustainable false scale setting in? Volume37, Issue3June 2021Pages RelatedInformation