The Need to Decentralize the Dominant Discourse on Port Cities
Abstract
Port cities have fulfilled essential functions for the emergence of international maritime trade and its expansion worldwide. Logistics and port infrastructures and technologies have played a central role in this expansion. Maritime transport and ports have connected distant territories by channeling flows of populations, raw materials, merchandise, gold, silver, money; and have contributed to the spread of ideas, religious beliefs, and technologies (Ciccantell and Bunker, 1998; Hein, 2011; Schubert, 2011; Vormann, 2015). These lines are representative of a dominant discourse in the field of studies on port cities that suggests that these have always been meeting places between cultures and people, as well as dynamic factors of exchange and development. This portrayal of port cities -their diverse culture, social and ethnic pluralism, and economic and commercial dynamism- has fascinated the modern imagination based on the ideology of progress.
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