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abf-239	Lu, Vivian Chenxue	Pirates, Insurers, Traders, Diviners: Encountering Economies of Somali Piracy	2020	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1304	42	29	The rise of Somali piracy in the waters off the Horn of Africa between 2007 and 2012 represented a peculiar form of global interruption; rather than simply the seizure of cargo, whose value is limited to the cargo itself, the hijack-and-ransom of ships and crew instead generated millions of dollars of value through ransom, demurrage, and negotiation. We quickly see that Somali piracy is less a story of desperate ragtag handfuls of men making do with state failure, as popular media and academic accounts portray, but rather one that emerges from a long history of making livelihoods along the “pastoral commons” of the Indian Ocean and its coasts (44).	cache/abf-239.pdf	txt/abf-239.txt