Johan Mathew. Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism across the Arabian Sea.

Palat, Ravi Arvind

doi:10.1093/ahr/123.3.1054

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“…Once again, eminently geographical phenomena such as the impossibility of permanently populating the high seas, or the challenges associated to accessing and controlling unruly coastlines, have produced distinctive legal norms like ‘the freedom of the seas’ and unique practices of shared or devolved jurisdiction at, or close to the sea, which Lauren Benton (2010) has labelled ‘legal pluralism’ (see also Merry, 1988; Colás & Mabee, 2010; Mathew, 2016; Pal, 2021). As commercial capitalism engulfed regional economies across the world, latching on to ancestral seaborne trade routes, repurposing local maritime knowledge and technologies (Sheriff, 2010), or adopting and adapting existing forms of property rights or labour exploitation at different ports (Bishara, 2017), the nature of the world market was also modified.…”

Section: Deep Timementioning

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Maritime temporalities and capitalist development

Colás

Campling

2023

Geography Compass

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This intervention develops arguments in our book Capitalism and the Sea on the complex temporalities attached to capitalism's intense and peculiar relationship to the global ocean. Technological innovations like the steamship or containerisation plainly transformed the pace and intensity of maritime commerce, and aspects of the global economy.We take this further to argue that the very origins and periodisation of capitalism are connected to the global ocean; as will be our futures, given the unpredictable implications of the oceans acting as the biosphere's 'heat sink'. We consider several stylised expressions of time at sea: deep-time, logistical-time, life-time, and revolutionary time suggesting that the ocean world as a geographical space articulates these in distinctive and contradictory ways.

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Section: Deep Timementioning

confidence: 99%

Maritime temporalities and capitalist development

Colás

Campling

2023

Geography Compass

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“…Of course, mobility has always produced debts for those who go, and profits for those who facilitate their movement (Mathew 2016; Schouten 2022). It is not necessarily that people migrate more than they used to, or that farmers take on more debts than they used to (Agarwal 2021; Federici 2012; Gerber 2014; Graeber 2011; Shah and Lerche 2020).…”

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“Life is a Gamble”

Reumert¹

2023

Cult. Anthropol.

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This article foregrounds the returns of migration by following young migrant workers to Lebanon and back to subsistence farming communities in western Sudan during a time of revolution and economic crisis in both countries. Their labor and the returns of it connect these two seemingly distinct zones of labor and production in a transregional economy, linking East Africa to the Middle East. In this cross-border economy, the search for work through mobility has become a point of value extraction by brokers and border guards, and at the same time a practice of gendered self-validation for male migrants. In Sudan, migrants and brokers both refer to this practice as a gamble, mughamara. Proposing mughamara as an ethnographic concept of mobility, I show how young migrants use this term to validate themselves through migration. Comparing their experiences to Sudanese migrants who worked in Lebanon decades before them, I show how the youth’s presentation of mobility as a necessary gamble with life reveals an underlying generational experience of crisis and the foreclosure of class mobility. In a political and socioeconomic context where migrant workers often feel devalued in and by labor, mobility is presented as their only way forward—as well as their ticket home.

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Johan Mathew. Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism across the Arabian Sea.

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Maritime temporalities and capitalist development

Maritime temporalities and capitalist development

“Life is a Gamble”

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