EAN: 9781784785239

CAPITALISM AND THE SEA - LIAM CAMPLING ALEJANDR...

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
Colas analyse 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.

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