Can the stories of bananas, whales, sea birds, and otters teach us
to reconsider the seaport as a place of ecological violence, tied
to oil, capital, and trade? San Pedro Bay, which contains the
contiguous Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, is a significant
site for petroleum shipping and refining as well as one of the
largest container shipping ports in the world-some forty percent of
containerized imports to the United States pass through this
so-called America's Port. It is also ecologically rich. Built atop
a land- and waterscape of vital importance to wildlife, the heavily
industrialized Los Angeles Harbor contains estuarial wetlands, the
LA River mouth, and a marine ecology where colder and warmer
Pacific Ocean waters meet. In this compelling interdisciplinary
investigation, award-winning author Christina Dunbar-Hester
explores the complex relationships among commerce, empire,
environment, and the nonhuman life forms of San Pedro Bay over the
last fifty years-a period coinciding with the era of modern
environmental regulation in the United States. The LA port complex
is not simply a local site, Dunbar-Hester argues, but a node in a
network that enables the continued expansion of capitalism,
propelling trade as it drives the extraction of natural resources,
labor violations, pollution, and other harms. Focusing specifically
on cetaceans, bananas, sea birds, and otters whose lives are
intertwined with the vitality of the port complex itself, Oil Beach
reveals how logistics infrastructure threatens ecologies as it
circulates goods and capital-and helps us to consider a future
where the accumulation of life and the accumulation of capital are
not in violent tension.
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