ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how geoeconomics forms can produce social and political forms that are held in tension with imaginaries of seamless, frictionless flows. It redefines the bodily rhythms and lifestyles of seafarers, producing a geographic logic of economy that privileges the movement of containers over that of the bodies who transport them, rendering them near immobile and subservient to the cargo they carry. The chapter shows how the imperative to keep costs low has reduced the number of seafarers transporting containers aboard ships that are simultaneously ever increasing in size, producing distinct immobilising social forms through labour intensification and alterations to the space of the ship itself. It explores how the seafarer's mobility can be further hindered as they are rendered a security concern in the collision of geoeconomics and geopolitics. The chapter also examines what happens when geo-economics forms fail and the container is removed from the logistics chain.
