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Abstract Situated in the manufacturing and construction industries of Durban, South Africa, this paper presents an ethnographic investigation into non‐unionised labour activism emergent from so‐called “organised crime” linked to the patronage politics of the African National Congress. In doing so, this paper traces a twin process of post‐colonial class
Nicholas Abrams
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FARM GROWTH AND ESTATE TRANSFER IN AN UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENT [PDF]
Farm Management,
Hardin, Mike L. +3 more
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Weaponising the Supply Chain: Yemen's Blockade and the Contradictions of Maritime Logistics Capital
Abstract This paper examines the 2023–2025 naval blockade imposed by Yemen in the Red Sea. It argues that the blockade's success in disrupting global trade stemmed from the potent confluence of asymmetric military tactics and the structural vulnerabilities inherent within global maritime logistics capitalism.
Ashok Kumar
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1991 Diplomatic Conference on Uniform Liability Rules for Operators of Transport Terminals [PDF]
Sweeney, Joseph
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Abstract Southwestern Pennsylvania (SWPA) has long been an energy extractive periphery, continuously remade through cycles of dispossession and accumulation. Here we examine the changing dynamics of private property in these cycles and its central role in the latest phase of extraction—unconventional oil and gas development (UOGD).
Owen Harrington, Jennifer Baka
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Locusts on the Arabian Oil Commodity Frontier: Space, Territory and Ecology in the Extractive Zone
ABSTRACT In 1943, British authorities launched a major operation in Arabia against the desert locust. Considered a threat to food security, teams of troops patrolled the desert to search for the insect and lay poison. Based on British archive documents, I argue that these patrols played a role in the territorialisation of the oil commodity frontier as ...
Christian Henderson
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Control Centres in the Context of Unmanned Ship Operations – Their Status and Potential Liabilities*
This chapter concerns a novel, indeed rather revolutionary, conception, commonly called an “unmanned ship”. The control centre by definition is central to unmanned ship operations and needs to be regarded as the “foundation stone” of the whole scheme; so its definition is important. The Control Centres (CC) is likely to be the mainstay or “command post”
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Ignoring History: The Liability of Ships\u27 Masters, Innkeepers and Stablekeepers Under Roman Law [PDF]
Bogen, David S.
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The Need for Shifting Baselines to Guide Fisheries and Ocean Activities From Days to Decades
ABSTRACT With novel ocean conditions rapidly appearing as the result of climate change, basing decisions about fisheries and other ocean activities on historical conditions is no longer tenable. There is instead a widespread need for shifting ecological baselines to more effectively guide decisions into the future.
Malin L. Pinsky, Sarah L. Smith
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