Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula by Khalili, Laleh

Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula

How shipping is central to the very fabric of global capitalism In our networked world, the realities...
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Author: Laleh Khalili
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Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula by Khalili, Laleh

Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula

$65.93

Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula

$65.93
Author: Laleh Khalili
Format: Paperback
Language: English
How shipping is central to the very fabric of global capitalism

In our networked world, the realities governing the international movement of freight are easily forgotten. But maritime transport remains the bedrock of trade. Convoys perpetually crisscross the oceans, carrying gas, oil, ore - indeed, every type of consumable and commodity. These movements, though practically invisible, mean that control of the seas is vital in an age when no nation can survive on domestic products alone.

Professor and author Laleh Khalili travelled the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean aboard gigantic container ships to investigate the secretive and sometimes dangerous world of maritime trade. What she discovered was strangely disturbing: brutally exploited seafarers enduring loneliness and risking injury to keep the cogs of trade turning. In the Arabian peninsula's ports, forbidden places encircled by barbed wire and moats of highways, the dockers struggle for benefits and political rights, as they have for generations. Environmental catastrophes threaten with increasing intensity and frequency. Around the oil-trading nations of the Middle East, a history of British colonialism, modern US imperialism, and local autocracies combine to worsen the conditions of modern seafarers, and piracy persists near the Horn of Africa.

From her research riding the sea lanes and visiting the major Middle Eastern ports, Khalili has produced a book that exposes the frayed and tense sinews of modern capital, a physical network without which none of our more abstracted webs and systems could operate.

Author: Laleh Khalili
Publisher: Verso
Published: 08/10/2021
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781786634825

About the Author
Laleh Khalili is a professor of politics and international studies at SOAS University of London. She is the author of Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration and Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies.

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