Logistical Asia : The Labour of Making a World Region

Logistical Asia The Labour of Making a World Region

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 m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores: Neilson, Brett, editor (editor), Rossiter, Ned, editor, Samaddar, Ranabir, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan 2018.
Colección:Springer eBooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38034566*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Making Logistical Worlds
  • Part I Port as Infrastructure of Postcolonial Capitalism
  • 2. The Port of Calcutta in the Imperial Network of South and South-East Asia, 1870s-1950s
  • 3. Spatialization of Calculability, Financialization of Space: A Study of the Kolkata Port
  • 4. Ports and Crime
  • 5. Haldia: Logistics and Its Other(s)
  • 6. Kolkata Port: Challenges of Geopolitics and Globalization
  • Part II Logistics of Asia-Led Globalization
  • 7. The Importance of Being Siliguri: Border Effect and the ‘Untimely' City in North Bengal
  • 8. Piraeus Port as a Machinic Assemblage: Labour, Precarity and Struggles
  • 9. Asia's Era of Infrastructure and the Politics of Corridors: Decoding the Language of Logistical Governance
  • 10. Logistics of the Accident: E-waste Management in Hong Kong
  • 11. Geopolitics of the Belt and Road: Space, State, and Capital in China and Pakistan
  • 12. Becoming Immaterial Labour: The Case of Macau's Internet Users
  • 13. Follow the Software: Reflections on the Logistical Worlds Project.

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