Sinews of War and Trade. Laleh Khalili

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СКАЧАТЬ href="#ulink_00a71ed5-5684-5712-8c2a-b5f76d5535b8">Making and remaking the land and the sea

       Chapter 3 – Palimpsests of Law and Corporate Sovereigns

       Weaponising arbitration tribunal

       Dubai Ports World

       Geophysical features into legal categories

       The offshore

       The global struggle over subsea resources

       Free zones

       Jabal Ali

       Saudi economic cities

       Chapter 4 – Roads and Rails Leading Away

       Oil roads and rail

       Roads as economic pacification weapons

       Competing powers and roads

       Federating transports

       Peninsular connections

       Chapter 5 – ‘Mechanic, Merchant, King’

       Tanker and cargo shipping companies

       Merchants and capitalists

       Insurance and banking

       Advisers, bureaucrats, and experts

       The technopolitics of managing ports

       Chapter 6 – Landside Labour

       Conditions of work

       Migration

       Protests in the Peninsula

       Politics or workplace protests?

       Forms of protest

       Unions as channels for protest

       Chokepoints and counterlogistics

       Chapter 7 – Shipboard Work

       Lascars, Asiatics, and others

       Circulation of revolt

       Global hierarchies aboard ships today

       Working on tankers

       Flagging

       Chapter 8 – The Bounties of War

       Routes of war; wars of routes

       The utility of regional wars for the Peninsula

       Tankers, wars, and Tanker Wars

       Desert Storm and after

       The importance of bases

       The riches of military construction and logistics

       Epilogue

       Glossary & abbreviations

       Bibliography

       Media (online and print), trade journals

       Court Cases

       Published Sources

       Notes

       Index

Acknowledgements

      David Hansen-Miller planted the seeds of this project when I was flailing for something totally new, something really different, something less bloody and grim to research after my counterinsurgency project had wound down (and ‘beaches and bars in Beirut’ wasn’t cutting it as a long-term proposition). He also hooked me up with the lovely people at the International Transport Workers’ Federation, and especially Jeremy Anderson, without whom this project would not have gotten off the ground. Rafeef Ziadah, Charmaine Chua, Deb Cowen, and Katy Fox-Hodess have been fellow travellers from the first, their intellectual companionship СКАЧАТЬ