This podcast was produced for PortCityFutures, by seaisthenewland.
It explores the on-going socio-spatial conflict at the Port of Piraeus, Greece, where local citizens are contesting the plan for port expansion.
It contains:
- Recording of the street protest of citizens against the expansion of the port (25/6/2020).
- Interviews conducted in 2020 to the following people:
Dimitra Vini – from the citizens movement Όχι λιμάνι στην Πειραϊκή (No port in Peiraiki peninsula).
Thanos Pallis – Professor at National & Kapodistrian University of Athens/ PortEconomis
Georgios Balias – Lawyer from Piraeus and expert in Environmental EU legislation
- Recording of a feminist choir, taking part in the street protest of citizens against the expansion of the port (25/6/2020).

FRICTIONS

Piraeus: inhabitants contesting the expansion of the privatised port

This podcast was commissioned by Karachi Beach Radio and produced by sea is the new land, in 2020. 

In January 2016, fisherfolk, civic rights activists, religious leaders and concerned citizens took to the streets of Colombo in Sri Lanka. They were protesting against the construction of the Colombo Port City, a project by the state-owned Chinese company CCCC, part of the One Belt One Road initiative.
As well as expanding the port infrastructure, the plans involved the construction of a new financial district and special economic zone to be built on a large area of reclaimed land next to Colombo’s existing waterfront. The People’s Movement Against Port City organised a range of actions, as well as a fisherfolk hunger strike. The group demanded the suspension of the controversial project, alleging the severe environmental, social and political implications for coastal communities and whole marine areas.

More info at: https://karachibeachradio.net/blogpost.php?id=8

Interviews were conducted in December 2019. Main voices:
- Herman Kumara
- Subashini Deepa

Colombo Port City: reclaiming land from the sea, threatening fishing communities and inhabitants

This is an episode of the podcast FRICTIONS, produced by seaisthenewland, for PortCityFutures.
It depicts the metamorphosis of a seaside town into an infrastructural suburb, in Pra' – located in the western periphery of Genoa. It focuses also on the process of public participation activated by the local Fondazione PRimA'vera.
Interviews were conducted in July 2021. Voices:
- Guido Barbazza
- Alessio Ponte
- Davide Siviero
- Francesca Franchelli
- Nico Calloni

Genoa Pra': maritime metamorphosis, erasure and participation

This track contains extracts of interviews Christina Henriksen, president of the Sámi Council, and Matti Aikio, an artist from Vuotso, a small reindeer-herding Sámi village in northern Finland.
The interviews were recorded in 2021, for the podcast FRICTIONS – episode #4: Kirkenes mega-port and logistics in the Arctic: infrastructure's hegemonic potential. This podcast has been produced by seaisthenewland for PortCityfutures, available here: https://www.portcityfutures.nl/news/frictions-episode-4-kirkenes-mega-port-and-logistics-in-the-arctic-infrastructures-hegemonic

Kirkenes: logistical infrastructure threatening Sami's territory

Makassar: the new port, sand mining and fisherfolk dispossession

Mersin: the container port encroaching on the city centre

Venice: big ships, the lagoon and the city

An extract from the interview with José García from DEPANA –League for the Defense of the Natural Heritage. The interview was conducted in November 2021 by Marta Catalán

Colombo Port City: reclaiming land from the sea, threatening fishing communities and inhabitants

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