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Comment on a paper entitled "Maritime Piracy and the Ambiguous Art of Existential Arbitragel," by Adrienne Mannov, Current Anthropology

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Who could doubt that piracy is a hindrance to the prosperity of global trade? The author doubts and through this original and audacious paper gives us reasons to share her misgivings. The hypothesis she supports is that piracy, which popular culture has widely interpreted as an act of resistance to the domination of empires, contributes on the contrary to their expansion and "is embedded in and subject to the logistics of global finance". This proposition is certainly not completely new: several studies have indeed demonstrated that piracy has participated in the development of capitalism or have highlighted its importance in the global financial system (Struett et al. 2013) 1 , but few have done so through ethnographic data. However, this is precisely what the author does. To "understand what role the risk of piracy played in the seafarers' lives", and more globally in the global shipping industry, the author uses indeed unpublished ethnographic data collected during 16 months spent "on board five ships flying different flags and across 9,000 nautical miles ". The originality of the approach adopted by her is thus to renew the analysis of the link between piracy and capitalism by proceeding to a subtle analysis of the notion of risk, and by investing, to do so, the point of view of an ethnography of global connections (Tsing, 2011 2) multi-scalar, multisituated and mobile.
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hal-04071675 , version 1 (21-04-2023)

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Hélène Artaud. Comment on a paper entitled "Maritime Piracy and the Ambiguous Art of Existential Arbitragel," by Adrienne Mannov, Current Anthropology. 2023. ⟨hal-04071675⟩
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