Thinking through the complexities of the Red Sea blockade, Professor Khalili will ask questions about how the entangled international and commercial control of maritime space deals with such disruptions in cargo and trade flows, and how the structure of global capital has to be taken into account in toto while waging a Gramscian war of position at local levels to leverage transformations more broadly.

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Laleh Khalili is Al-Qasimi Professor of Gulf Studies and the Director of the Centre for Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter. Her most recent book is Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (Verso 2020), which examines the role of maritime infrastructures as conduits of movement of technologies, capital, people, and cargo.

Nidhi Mahajan is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. Her book project, Moorings: The Dhow Trade, Capitalism, and Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean, examines the marginalized mobile society of Muslim seafarers from Kachchh in western India who have become crucial intermediaries in global shipping as they move across South Asia, East Africa, and the Middle East.