Desperate Mobilities

Logistics, Security and the Extra-Logistical Knowledge of 'Appropriation

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ID3948264
AuthorsCraig Martins (0000-0001-7663-4841), Craig Martin (0000-0003-3143-4162, Royal Holloway University of London, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume17
Issue2
Pages355-376
Publication date2012-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2011.562941
OpenAlexW2035981667
LanguageEN
Citations received22

This paper sets out to address the increasing strategic power of logistics management in the context of commodity and corporeal mobilities. In doing so it looks to the strategy of interconnectivity in order to address the management of legitimated mobilities. It is argued that the geopower of commodity mobility is premised on the infrastructural strength offered by logistics management, a form of spatial and temporal control that operates through increasingly territorialising means. However, given the infrastructural ‘tension’ that processes of standardisation have created, the paper also concerns the appropriation of commodity mobility networks for the purposes of illegitimated corporeal mobility. In part this is intended to develop the critiques of globalisation which challenged the image of transnational mobility networks as part of a borderless, boundless present typified most readily by the flows of information, capital and commodities. By contrast the ‘desperate mobilities’ of undocumented immigrants attests to the rather more tangled manifestations of mobility that many individuals have to traverse. In particular I focus on the fallibility of strategic sites within global commodity movement and the uses of ‘extra-logistical knowledge’

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