Spencer Louis Potiker
Biographic Data
| ID | 316524 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Spencer Louis Potiker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Spencer Louis |
| FAMILY NAME | Potiker |
| SIGNATURE | POTIKER S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9089-9157 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Just ‐ in ‐ Time to Just ‐ in ‐ Case: Supply Chain Urbanism in San Diego‐Tijuana
This article analyzes why the San Diego‐Tijuana city system has undergone a process of supply chain urbanism—development in the logistics sector—since 2013. The article compares the 2003–2013 period, during which the region saw a lack of growth in the transportation and warehousing sector, with the 2013–2023 period, when the sector underwent regionally specific growth at unprecedented rates, measured through increases in employment and cross‐bord…
Chokepoints Amidst the Trade War: Immigrant Worker Power in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands
This article asks what the opportunities for and constraints on labor organizing in San Diego’s logistics sector are. Using Amazon warehouse workers and XPO Logistics truck drivers as illustrative examples the paper uses the power resources approach to assess the associational, institutional, societal, structural, and disruptive power workers have at their disposal in the region’s logistics sector. Drawn from a broader project on the San Diego–Ti…
Bordering along the supply chain: The border as place or political construction
This paper complicates our understanding of borders as lines of separation instead analyzing their complex forms and uses for the reproduction and accumulation of capital; division, surveillance, and disciplining of the working class; and the mitigation of costs along the supply chain. The paper focuses on the mobility regimes that cross the Otay Mesa port of entry between San Diego and Tijuana in particular migrant labor and supply chains. The p…
From Africa to Amazon.com: Racialized Labor and Global Supply Chains
What can world-systems analysis of the role of Africa in the creation of the capitalist world-economy tell us about Amazon’s model of control of global supply chains in the 21st century? How did patterns established by European imperialism and enslavement of Africans create long-lasting continuities of racial capitalism and migration that are used by Amazon to profit in the contemporary era? We argue that the analyses of imperialism and racialize…
Labor organizing at chokepoints along Amazon's supply chain: Locating geo-strategic nodes
Amazon seems to be creating a new hybrid model of capitalism combining some elements of classical Fordist vertical integration, or even the over hundred-year-old "Taylorism" of scientific management, with 21st century elements of labor "flexibility" and reliance on gig labor and subcontracting. This hybrid model offers opportunities for organized labor to gain a foothold within some of Amazon's vertically integrated nodes as the firm lengthens it…
Exit-With-Autonomy or Autonomy-Without-Exit? Divergent Political Trajectories in Rojava and the Kurdish Regional Government
This paper argues that sociological analysis of social movements has undertheorized non/anti-state social movements. It is argued that an alternative modality of resistance to that of movements seeking reform through the state or the capture of state power through revolution is to exit the world-system and set up parallel structures of governance and production. A conjunctural inter-regional comparison is taken up in order to map the inter-scalar…
Anarchist and Anarchistic Anti-Systemic Movements in World-Systems Perspective: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Non-State Spaces
While world-systems anti-systemic movement scholarship has briefly acknowledged the existence of anti-state “cultural” movements—namely, autonomous indigenous movements in the periphery and anarchist worker movements in the core and semi-periphery—it relegates them to secondary importance to statist “political” movements. In this paper, we provide an intervention in the world-systems anti-systemic movements literature by centering anti-state move…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Anti-State and Anti-Systemic – Exilic Spaces and Societies in Movement in the World-System
Editor's introduction to the special issue on non-state movements and spaces
The Logistics of Occupation: Israel's Colonial Suppression of Palestine's Goods Movement Infrastructure
This article argues that Israel's colonial domination of Palestine's logistics and goods movement infrastructure (ports, roads, and supply chain) remains a central, yet understudied, aspect of both the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine and the broader Zionist settler colonial project. Israel's targeted military destruction of Palestine's key logistical nodes (Gaza's seaport and airport) coupled with Israel's devastating immobilization progr…
The Logistics of Occupation: Israel's Colonial Suppression of Palestine's Goods Movement Infrastructure
This article argues that Israel's colonial domination of Palestine's logistics and goods movement infrastructure (ports, roads, and supply chain) remains a central, yet understudied, aspect of both the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine and the broader Zionist settler colonial project. Israel's targeted military destruction of Palestine's key logistical nodes (Gaza's seaport and airport) coupled with Israel's devastating immobilization progr…
Labor organizing at chokepoints along Amazon's supply chain: Locating geo-strategic nodes
Amazon seems to be creating a new hybrid model of capitalism combining some elements of classical Fordist vertical integration, or even the over hundred-year-old "Taylorism" of scientific management, with 21st century elements of labor "flexibility" and reliance on gig labor and subcontracting. This hybrid model offers opportunities for organized labor to gain a foothold within some of Amazon's vertically integrated nodes as the firm lengthens it…
From Africa to Amazon.com: Racialized Labor and Global Supply Chains
What can world-systems analysis of the role of Africa in the creation of the capitalist world-economy tell us about Amazon’s model of control of global supply chains in the 21st century? How did patterns established by European imperialism and enslavement of Africans create long-lasting continuities of racial capitalism and migration that are used by Amazon to profit in the contemporary era? We argue that the analyses of imperialism and racialize…
The Logistics of Occupation: Israel's Colonial Suppression of Palestine's Goods Movement Infrastructure
This article argues that Israel's colonial domination of Palestine's logistics and goods movement infrastructure (ports, roads, and supply chain) remains a central, yet understudied, aspect of both the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine and the broader Zionist settler colonial project. Israel's targeted military destruction of Palestine's key logistical nodes (Gaza's seaport and airport) coupled with Israel's devastating immobilization progr…
Anarchist and Anarchistic Anti-Systemic Movements in World-Systems Perspective: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Non-State Spaces
While world-systems anti-systemic movement scholarship has briefly acknowledged the existence of anti-state “cultural” movements—namely, autonomous indigenous movements in the periphery and anarchist worker movements in the core and semi-periphery—it relegates them to secondary importance to statist “political” movements. In this paper, we provide an intervention in the world-systems anti-systemic movements literature by centering anti-state move…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Anti-State and Anti-Systemic – Exilic Spaces and Societies in Movement in the World-System
Editor's introduction to the special issue on non-state movements and spaces
Exit-With-Autonomy or Autonomy-Without-Exit? Divergent Political Trajectories in Rojava and the Kurdish Regional Government
This paper argues that sociological analysis of social movements has undertheorized non/anti-state social movements. It is argued that an alternative modality of resistance to that of movements seeking reform through the state or the capture of state power through revolution is to exit the world-system and set up parallel structures of governance and production. A conjunctural inter-regional comparison is taken up in order to map the inter-scalar…
Labor organizing at chokepoints along Amazon's supply chain: Locating geo-strategic nodes
Amazon seems to be creating a new hybrid model of capitalism combining some elements of classical Fordist vertical integration, or even the over hundred-year-old "Taylorism" of scientific management, with 21st century elements of labor "flexibility" and reliance on gig labor and subcontracting. This hybrid model offers opportunities for organized labor to gain a foothold within some of Amazon's vertically integrated nodes as the firm lengthens it…
From Africa to Amazon.com: Racialized Labor and Global Supply Chains
What can world-systems analysis of the role of Africa in the creation of the capitalist world-economy tell us about Amazon’s model of control of global supply chains in the 21st century? How did patterns established by European imperialism and enslavement of Africans create long-lasting continuities of racial capitalism and migration that are used by Amazon to profit in the contemporary era? We argue that the analyses of imperialism and racialize…
From Just ‐ in ‐ Time to Just ‐ in ‐ Case: Supply Chain Urbanism in San Diego‐Tijuana
This article analyzes why the San Diego‐Tijuana city system has undergone a process of supply chain urbanism—development in the logistics sector—since 2013. The article compares the 2003–2013 period, during which the region saw a lack of growth in the transportation and warehousing sector, with the 2013–2023 period, when the sector underwent regionally specific growth at unprecedented rates, measured through increases in employment and cross‐bord…
Chokepoints Amidst the Trade War: Immigrant Worker Power in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands
This article asks what the opportunities for and constraints on labor organizing in San Diego’s logistics sector are. Using Amazon warehouse workers and XPO Logistics truck drivers as illustrative examples the paper uses the power resources approach to assess the associational, institutional, societal, structural, and disruptive power workers have at their disposal in the region’s logistics sector. Drawn from a broader project on the San Diego–Ti…
Bordering along the supply chain: The border as place or political construction
This paper complicates our understanding of borders as lines of separation instead analyzing their complex forms and uses for the reproduction and accumulation of capital; division, surveillance, and disciplining of the working class; and the mitigation of costs along the supply chain. The paper focuses on the mobility regimes that cross the Otay Mesa port of entry between San Diego and Tijuana in particular migrant labor and supply chains. The p…
Supply chain (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Amazon rainforest (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (3 works)