...Niccolò Cuppini; Mattia Frapporti; Maurilio Pirone This article investigates the logistics of contemporary global capitalism from two primary vantage points: the grounded perspective of recent struggles in the logistics sector of northern Italy and a more general interpretation of contemporary...

...Theodore Ropp U. S. Naval Logistics in the Second World War . By Ballantine Duncan S. . Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press , 1947 . Pp. xii , 308 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 Book Reviews 60s than armed force. It is, and Mr. Cooper...

...Ned Rossiter Logistical media coordinate and control the movement of labor, people, and things situated along and within global supply chains. The combination of software and infrastructure holds a determining force in the production of subjectivity and the capacity for action. Algorithmic...

... approach against the background of the multiple transformations and crises of the European border regime, the authors focus on shifting paradigms in the management of labor mobility. A short review of the emerging field of “critical logistics studies” allows them to single out a process of “logistification...

...Kevin Lin; Pun Ngai In June 2018, a group of Chinese truck drivers, overwhelmingly made up of rural migrant workers, staged wildcat strikes across China to demand better pay from a monopolistic, logistic, app-based platform. The strike wave intersects with two emerging phenomena in China...

..., logistics, and finance harnessed to a fantasy of logistical biopower in service of capital. Rather, Asian circuits of capital in Africa call attention to new, uneven geographies of accumulation, accountability, and struggle. References African Development Bank . 2010 . Ports, Logistics, and Trade...

... that brings together a focus on the desire to travel and on expectations of popular progress with an analysis of contemporary dynamics of exploitation. On the other hand, she investigates the infrastructure and logistics that organize mobility beyond the reference to the figures of “traffickers” and “slaves...

...Deborah Cowen; Glenda Garelli; Martina Tazzioli In this interview, the editors of this issue of SAQ ask Deborah Cowen about how the notion of the migration crisis has played out in the field of logistics. Deborah Cowen, Glenda Garelli, and Martina Tazzioli Editors’ Interview with Deborah Cowen...

...Sandro Mezzadra; Brett Neilson References Cowen Deborah . 2014 . The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Harney Stefano Moten Fred . 2013 . The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study...

... logistics connecting high finances with low finances can be seen. References Almeida Cássia . 2013 . “Alta na renda, no consumo e nas dívidas marca o ano das famílias” (“High on Income, Consumption, and Debt Marks the Year for Families”) . O globo , December 14 . oglobo.globo.com/economia...

...Jasbir K. Puar This article examines the production of mobility obstacles and restrictions in Palestine, highlighting dimensions of the logistics of border crossings and movement in the West Bank in relation to disability rights frameworks. It argues two things: that the creation of what Celeste...

... on a distinct industry: food delivery, short-term housing rental, and the social/voluntary sector. In each of these domains, we show how asset-light platforms initiate and develop partnerships as a frequently nebulous boundary resource that opens up potential avenues for (1) market consolidation, (2) logistical...

...Ishita Dey; Giorgio Grappi This article explores the postcolonial state’s experiments with logistics through the construction of industrial corridors. Through the concept of “corridor economy” it traces the shift from special economic zones to corridors, with a special focus on the Delhi-Mumbai...

.... This archaeological reconstruction of an antagonistic politics of planning is contrasted with the disavowed elements of planning within contemporary business logistics as well as with efforts within critical Marxist theory after 1968 to push against the depoliticizing dimensions of the plan. The South Atlantic...

..., dispossession, and ecological collapse. Yet, in each case, crisis is called to order through refusal. Refusal disrupts racial capitalist and settler colonial circulation as it also opens radical alternatives. Looking to struggles over the imperial logistics of mobility and containment, the paper asks what kinds...

..., and logistics. She is a member of Into the Black Box, a collective research on logistics, spaces, and labor. Filippo Bignami holds a PhD in political and social sciences. He is senior researcher and lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Department of Economics, Health...

... of Social Sciences at Buenos Aires Uni- versity and is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). She is currently working on a project explor- ing popular economies in post-neoliberal contexts. Giorgio Grappi is working on corridors, logistics...

... University Lüneburg. His areas of study include digital capitalism, labor, logistics, and migration. Paul Apostolidis is Professor and Judge and Mrs. Timothy A. Paul Endowed Chair of Political Science at Whitman College as well as a professorial fellow at the Institute for Social Justice at Australian...

... of digital technologies, a logistical rationality, and the adoption of logged labor (Huws 2016) have, together, progressively colonized forms of work and consumption. These processes are transform- ing not only the economy, but also forms of life, social relations, and the political realm. Yet, we believe...

... engineering have become more frequent and prominent. Con- sider the proposal made by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski (2019: 239) to seize logistics and planning powerhouses the Walmarts and Amazons of the world and repurpose them for an egalitarian, ecologically rational civilization. Convinced...