{"id":13668,"date":"2009-10-03T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=13668"},"modified":"2017-09-16T19:08:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T00:08:13","slug":"images-of-the-economic-downturn-idle-container-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/03\/images-of-the-economic-downturn-idle-container-ships\/","title":{"rendered":"Images of the Economic Downturn: Idle Container Ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sandra H. sent us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/moslive\/article-1212013\/Revealed-The-ghost-fleet-recession-anchored-just-east-Singapore.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a story<\/a> about a field of empty container ships parked off the coast of Singapore:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/moslive\/article-1212013\/Revealed-The-ghost-fleet-recession-anchored-just-east-Singapore.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simon Parry reports<\/a> that the field includes about 12 percent of the world&#8217;s container ships.\u00a0 More than &#8220;the U.S. and British navies combined,&#8221; he writes.<\/p>\n<p>The idle ships are another visual indication of the worldwide economic downturn, alongside the images of <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/04\/11\/economic-change-and-city-vitality\/\" target=\"_self\">Detroit&#8217;s decline<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/02\/06\/images-of-the-economic-downturn-unsold-cars\/\" target=\"_self\">unsold cars<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/04\/16\/the-unequal-recession-home-foreclosures-and-the-dilemma-of-the-duplex\/\" target=\"_self\">abandoned homes<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/01\/10\/the-economic-downturn-on-display-at-the-mall\/\" target=\"_self\">empty malls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandra H. sent us a link to a story about a field of empty container ships parked off the coast of Singapore: Simon Parry reports that the field includes about 12 percent of the world&#8217;s container ships.\u00a0 More than &#8220;the U.S. and British navies combined,&#8221; he writes. The idle ships are another visual indication of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,12498,64,1800,85],"class_list":["post-13668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-economics-great-recession","tag-globalization","tag-nation-singapore","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13668"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71172,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668\/revisions\/71172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}