Port in Global Capitalism
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9780367340964
Subjects: Rio de janeiro (brazil); Harbors; Capitalism; Brazil, economic conditions
Description: "Through a study of the port district of Rio de Janeiro and its history, from its emergence as a major slave market to its modern-day incarnation as a hub of tourism, real-estate and financial speculation, this book examines the different dimensions of the manner in which capitalism expands its global process of accumulation to incorporate spaces not yet integrated into chains of value production. As such, it sheds new light on the use of explicit non-economic violence on the part of capitalist expansion, in the form of colonial or imperial policies, plundering or legal forms of expropriation. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, historians, economists, legal scholars and political theorists with interests in capitalism and inequalities"--