Vyacheslav Bondarenko

v.bondarenko@dsm.museum

associated doctoral candidate (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies)

Office hours

Nach Vereinbarung

Visiting address

Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Forschungsneubau „Weltbeziehungen“ C19
Nordhäuser Str. 63
99089 Erfurt

Mailing address

Universität Erfurt
Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt

Vyacheslav Bondarenko

Personal information

Work Experience

  • Since Jan 2023: Research Assistant at Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum, Bremerhaven
  • Sep 2017 - Sep 2018 Economic Analyst at ClipperMaritime, London
  • Dec 2016 - Sep 2017 Economic Analyst at Inchcape Shipping Services, London

Education

  • 2018 - 2022 MA Sociology – European Societies at Freie Universität Berlin
  • 2013 - 2016 BSc Economics University of Surrey, United Kingdom
  • 2010 - 2012 BSc Business Economics University of Groningen, Netherlands
  • 2001 - 2010 School No6, Vinnytsia, Ukraine

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Research project

ACROSS THE OCEAN TO ENRICH THE FEW. CONTAINER SHIPPING INDUSTRY AND UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT

Working within the world-system approach and utilising the insights from theories of uneven geographical development, my PhD project aims to analyse the relationship between globalisation and container shipping industry. The guiding question of my research is the following: In what ways does the evolution of the container shipping industry contribute to the configuration of the world-economy and uneven development of the global capitalism? Instead of portraying container shipping as a passive servant of globalisation and seeing it only as derivative of economic tendencies, I propose the hypothesis that the dynamics within the container shipping industry actively influence the development of global capitalism.

In particular, I want to analyse, first, the ways in which container shipping industry prevents balanced globalisation. Further, I pay special attention to global container shipping alliances and their contribution to uneven geographical development. Finally, I elaborate on environmental limits to further globalisation with the special focus on the container shipping industry.

I endeavour to research the container shipping industry as a crucial factor in the functioning of the capitalist world-system, with liner shipping connectivity being one of the most important determinants of centrality in the global system of trade. In addition, I strive to investigate the spatial contradictions characteristic of container shipping – sea/land interaction of intermodal transportation and mobility/fixity contradiction between vessel and port – and their role in uneven geographical development.

Vyacheslav Bondarenko is an associate member of the sub-project JRT02 "Clash or Convergence of Capitalisms: Property Conflicts over Chinese Direct Investments in Germany and the European Union" of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR 294 "Structural Change of Property".