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.
She is the author of Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration and Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies ..
About author(s): Laleh Khalili is a professor of politics and international studies at SOAS University of London.
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.
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.
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.
China\'s \'maritime silk road\' flanks the Peninsula on all sides.
Much of the material shipped from China are transported through the ports of Arabian Peninsula, Dubai\'s Jabal Ali port foremost among them.
The oil that fuels China\'s manufacturing comes primarily from the Arabian Peninsula.
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.
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
