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
Geophysical features into legal categories
The global struggle over subsea resources
Chapter 4 – Roads and Rails Leading Away
Roads as economic pacification weapons
Chapter 5 – ‘Mechanic, Merchant, King’
Tanker and cargo shipping companies
Advisers, bureaucrats, and experts
The technopolitics of managing ports
Politics or workplace protests?
Unions as channels for protest
Chokepoints and counterlogistics
Global hierarchies aboard ships today
Chapter 8 – The Bounties of War
The utility of regional wars for the Peninsula
Tankers, wars, and Tanker Wars
The riches of military construction and logistics
Media (online and print), trade journals
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
