{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Ian Kumekawa on Globalization As Told Through One Ship","description":"How do you write the history of something as abstract, as placeless, and as vast as the globalization that has remade our world over the past several decades?&amp;nbsp; If you\u2019re Ian Kumekawa, you make those immaterial forces concrete by telling the story of one object: a hulking 94-meter-long steel barge he calls \u201cThe Vessel.\u201d&amp;nbsp; From housing for oil roughnecks in the North Sea, to a barracks for British soldiers in the Falklands, to a jail docked on a Manhattan pier, the Vessel reveals how the murky world of offshore capitalism is in fact embodied in tangible things. It always involves real people living and working in real places.&amp;nbsp; This one ship, then, helps us to see the too-often-invisible material reality of global capitalism at the close of the twentieth century.&amp;nbsp; ","author_name":"Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/whomakescentspodcast.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/36577710\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/188365130"}