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... of pilgrims from eight million to thirty million. Under this plan, the holy city is to become a laboratory for new sciences and technologies of crowd management, logistics, and optimization. This article demonstrates how Mecca comes to be constitutive of these new crowd sciences. The author shows how a range...

... and in the air. The same aerial network can be embodied in multiple aerial social spaces that produce and reproduce state power in different ways. This article highlights two such pathways: the first through cultural and the second through logistical impact. In support it presents two case studies based...

... by the rise of new logistics infrastructures, which are inseparable from the global integration of national economies into an ever-expanding market capitalist system. However, as the authors argue, what continues to distinguish these cities is precisely their histories as cosmopolitan centers...

... to Incheon International Airport. IFEZ actively courts foreign investment and labor through significant tax incentives, logistics capabilities, leisure opportuni- ties, and the promise to be one of the world’s “smartest” urban regions (J. Kim, pers. comm In pursuit of this goal at Songdo, Gale enlisted...

... on New Terrain , edited by Ginsburg Faye Abu-Lughod Lila Larkin Brian , 75 – 89 . Berkeley : University of California Press . Virilio Paul . 1989 . War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception . Translated by Camiller Patrick . London : Verso . Virilio Paul...

... grounded in, and validated by, the highly influential “broken windows” theory of criminology first articulated by socio- logists James Q. Wilson...

... returned to fight against Khartoum in Darfur. In this new war their mili- tary expertise and their connections with Chad became instrumental to the orga- nization of logistical support for the insurgency. The takeover of the airport...

... agro-industrial enclaves, logistics-driven (and policy-sponsored) processes of zoning are clearly invested in defining latitudinal geographies and their effects on citizenship and labor (cf. Ong 2006 ), in the context of agribusiness rearticulation within supply-chain capitalist networks (Tsing...

..., Slavery, and Violence at Sea . London : Pluto , 2015 . Cowen Deborah . 2014 . The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Cox Oliver Cromwell . 1959 . The Foundations of Capitalism . New York : Philosophical...

... of the poorest of the poor. 114 The corporate mission at the BOP must focus on process as well as product Next Practices design. Logistics systems are important here. In developed countries, Prahalad points out, logistics systems are well in place: “A reliable infrastructure exists...

... by a play of visual codes that go hand in hand with the logistics of military percep- tion. The elevated — almost aerial — perspective through which we observe this cultural enactment corresponds to the technological viewpoints that frame...

... as it reconsiders what predated and what might follow those last five hundred years of modern Enlightenment whiteness. Urbanism is a stage for modeling and enacting another understanding, another kind of knowledge—the exchanges in physical, lumpy, heavy, temporal space exceeding those thinner financial logistical...

... Asia. The recent Asian eco- nomic crisis has called these projections into question. Falling currencies may raise hopes of export-driven “recovery” on the backs of impoverished workers, but the complex global logistics of the system creates...

... interviews can otherwise generate. Beyond the representations and the logistics that complicate the study of children, the researcher's familiarity with these representations can get in the way. It can be difficult not to short-circuit the informant's childhood account with representations that we...

..., Paul. 1989 . War and cinema: The logistics of perception , translated by Patrick Camiller. London: Verso. doxa at large Images and Evidence: Human Trafficking, Auditing...

... University Press . Turner Fred . 2006 . From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Virilio Paul . 1989 . War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception . Translated...

... eating? What are the logistics of such consumption by proxy? As an Indian parallel, consider the twelve jyotir lingas, or fiery phallus emblems of the god Shiva. Although these lingas of light are conventionally located in twelve different Indian cities, they have...

... eating? What are the logistics of such consumption by proxy? As an Indian parallel, consider the twelve jyotir lingas, or fiery phallus emblems of the god Shiva. Although these lingas of light are conventionally located in twelve different Indian cities, they have...

... developments, or scholarly communities. Tracking cables in other ways, as logistical technologies and as industrial forms, is possible with or without media studies, each with its own ends and potential trajectories. To step outside one's field, to denaturalize its constitutive beliefs, and to ask...

... are state institutions, they are usually governed by deeply divergent speeds and rhythms (Virilio 2006; Lefebvre 2004). Military action requires precision and speed whereas bureaucracy could be vague and slow. In the past, the process of gathering resources and planning the logistics for demolitions...