Charmaine Chua will present on "What does Anti-Imperial Working Class Internationalism Mean Today?"
Charmaine Chua is a Singaporean scholar, organizer and writer, and is an acting Associate Professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on political economy, postcolonial development, and technological change, with a specific interest in how the rise of the logistics industry has reconfigured the contemporary relations between supply chain capitalism, race, and empire. They are currently writing two books, The Logistics Counterrevolution, and How to Beat Amazon: The Struggle of America's New Working Class (co-authored with Spencer Cox). Her work has been published in The Review of International Studies, the Socialist Register, Theory and Event, Antipode, Society and Space, The Boston Review, The Nation, and Jacobin, among other venues. They co-founded the Marxist Institute of Research and organize with Workers in Palestine, Researchers Against War, and Amazonians United. In 2023, she was named a Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar in recognition of movement leaders who participate in academia with a demonstrated commitment to supporting social movements, and received the 2023 Harold J. Plous Memorial Award, one of UCSB’s highest faculty honors.