Maritime temporalities and capitalist development
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چکیده
This intervention develops arguments in our book Capitalism and the Sea on complex temporalities attached to capitalism's intense peculiar relationship global ocean. Technological innovations like steamship or containerisation plainly transformed pace intensity of maritime commerce, aspects economy. We take this further argue that very origins periodisation capitalism are connected ocean; as will be futures, given unpredictable implications oceans acting biosphere's ‘heat sink’. consider several stylised expressions time at sea: deep-time, logistical-time, life-time, revolutionary suggesting ocean world a geographical space articulates these distinctive contradictory ways.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Geography Compass
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1749-8198']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12715