A wide-ranging account of shipping and capitalism in the Middle East On
the map of global trade, China is now the factory of the world. A parade
of ships full of raw commodities -iron ore, coal, oil- arrive in its
ports, and fleets of container ships leave with manufactured goods in
all directions. The oil that fuels China's manufacturing comes primarily
from the Arabian Peninsula.
Much of the material shipped from
China are transported through the ports of Arabian Peninsula, Dubai's
Jabal Ali port foremost among them. China's 'maritime silk road' flanks
the Peninsula on all sides. Sinews of War and Trade is the story of what
the making of new ports and shipping infrastructures has meant not only
for the Arabian Peninsula itself, but for the region and the world
beyond.
The book is the account of how maritime transportation
is not simply an enabling adjunct of trade, but central to the very
fabric of global capitalism. The ports that serve maritime trade,
logistics, and hydrocarbon transport create racialised hierarchies of
labour, engineer the lived environment, aid the accumulation of capital
regionally and globally, and carry forward colonial regimes of profit,
law and administration.
Sinews of War and Trade : Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula - Laleh Khalili
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