Logistical Asia : the labour of making a world region

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Logistical Asia : the labour of making a world region

Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter, Ranabir Samaddar, editors

Palgrave Macmillan, c2018

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This book explores how the management science of logistics changes working lives and contributes to the making of world regions. With a focus on the port of Kolkata and changing patterns of Asian regionalism, the volume examines how logistics entwine with political power, historical forces, labour movements, and new technologies. The contributors ask how logistical practices reconfigure both Asia's relation to the world and its internal logic of transport and communication. Building on critical perspectives that understand logistics as a political technology for producing and organizing space and power, Logistical Asia tracks how digital technologies and material infrastructure combine to remake urban and regional territories and produce new forms of governance and subjectivity.

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1. Making Logistical WorldsPart I Port as Infrastructure of Postcolonial Capitalism2. The Port of Calcutta in the Imperial Network of South and South-East Asia, 1870s-1950s3. Spatialization of Calculability, Financialization of Space: A Study of the Kolkata Port4. Ports and Crime5. Haldia: Logistics and Its Other(s)6. Kolkata Port: Challenges of Geopolitics and GlobalizationPart II Logistics of Asia-Led Globalization7. The Importance of Being Siliguri: Border Effect and the 'Untimely' City in North Bengal8. Piraeus Port as a Machinic Assemblage: Labour, Precarity and Struggles9. Asia's Era of Infrastructure and the Politics of Corridors: Decoding the Language of Logistical Governance10. Logistics of the Accident: E-waste Management in Hong Kong11. Geopolitics of the Belt and Road: Space, State, and Capital in China and Pakistan12. Becoming Immaterial Labour: The Case of Macau's Internet Users13. Follow the Software: Reflections on the Logistical Worlds Project

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