Port cities storytelling: drawing on materials of neglect

Lopes, H. F. S., Liao, Y., Binter, J. T. S. and Durand, O. I. 2026. Port cities storytelling: drawing on materials of neglect. Journal of Global History 10.1017/S1740022826100448

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Abstract

Odessa, Hong Kong, Casablanca(s), and the ports of the Niger Delta: this transdisciplinary article unfolds through four distinct vignettes, exploring how global historians across the disciplines may engage anew in the storytelling of colonial ports, by attuning themselves to the minor and anecdotal in materials of neglect. Our work of minoring stems from our collaboration as part of the network, Colonial Ports and Global History (CPAGH), co-founded by an anthropologist, historians, and musicologists. With shared interests in performance, temporality, and materiality, our vignettes highlight the ways in which identified materials of neglect may serve to articulate minor experiences and agencies—and a transdisciplinary mode of port cities storytelling in the plural that ventures in another direction from the sweeping coverage of global history. Together, these vignettes reflect our converging disciplinary orientations towards minor episodes and overlooked actors within colonial ports, advancing, variously yet in tandem, a major–minor continuum of people, things, and practices in transdisciplinary writing.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Schools > History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D204 Modern History D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D731 World War II D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D839 Post-war History, 1945 on D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D880 Developing Countries D History General and Old World > DC France D History General and Old World > DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics D History General and Old World > DS Asia D History General and Old World > DT Africa M Music and Books on Music > M Music
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press (CUP): No Cambridge Open
ISSN:	1740-0228
Funders:	Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Leverhulme Trust ECF-2017-409, TORCH, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, Networks Scheme (2018–21)
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	21 April 2026
Date of Acceptance:	9 February 2026
Last Modified:	21 Apr 2026 14:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/186476

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