Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World by Campling, Liam

Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781784785239)

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Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World by Campling, Liam

Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World

$29.95
Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World by Campling, Liam

Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World

$29.95
Format: Hardcover
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What keeps capitalism afloat?

The global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of our carbon civilization - warming, expanding, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere.

In this bold and radical new book, Campling and Col s analyze these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. In successive chapters dealing with the political economy, ecology and geopolitics of the sea, the authors argue that the earth's geographical separation into land and sea has significant consequences for capitalist development. The distinctive features of this mode of production continuously seek to transcend the land-sea binary in an incessant quest for profit, engendering new alignments of sovereignty, exploitation and appropriation in the capture and coding of maritime spaces and resources.

Author: Liam Campling, Alejandro Colas
ISBN-10: 1784785237
ISBN-13: 9781784785239
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2021
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.20w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2022
By Liam Campling
By Liam Campling
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Liam Campling is professor of political economy at Queen Mary University of London where he works collectively at the Centre on Labour and Global Production, is co-author of Free Trade Agreements and Global Labour Governance: Working Beyond the Border (Routledge), and is an editor of Journal of Agrarian Change.

Alejandro Col疽 is Professor of International Relations at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has written two books for Polity Press, International Civil Society: Social Movements in World Politics and Empire, and is co-author of Food, Politics, and Society: Social Theory and the Modern Food System (University of California Press).

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