Logistics from the margins
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4476009 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Stenmanns (0000-0002-4778-1559, Goethe University Frankfurt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 850-867 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0263775819834013 |
| OpenAlex | W2922450382 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 43 |
Seaports at global margins rarely feature in contemporary discussions of the logistics industry. This paper brings together recent geographical writing on logistics with discussions of margins as paradoxical sites of inclusive exclusion. Building on fieldwork on the docks of Freetown, Sierra Leone - a port that experts in logistics problematize as a 'contaminated' place within the global shipping community - this contribution shows that seaports at global margins are in fact at the centre of key projects of global circulation. While logistics embodies universal aspirations to connectivity, it is profoundly dependent on the uneven terrains of global capitalism. To make this case, this contribution traces the interventions of a global terminal operator and the US Coast Guard to reposition a port at the margins and discusses their effects on logistical and political orders. In doing so, this paper offers a critical perspective on the power geometries of the global logistics industry. Logistics in this view is not only a political technology that creates seamless interconnectivity and transforms heterogeneous places with diverse socialities, political configurations and technological infrastructures into zones of global circulation. The implementation of logistics is also an intrinsically controversial, precarious and contested project
Business · Capitalism · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Geography · Guard (computer science · Interconnectivity · Political science · Politics · Port (circuit theory · Sierra leone · Sociology · China's Global Influence and Migration · Computer Science · Engineering · Urban Planning and Governance · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Dépasser les ancrages disciplinaires. Pour des logistics studies de terrain
The work-intensive fiction of frictionless trade in the Angolan port of Lobito
Exploring transterranean activism as a research site beyond local protest sites
The material politics of labour in Africa
Automated infrastructure
Geographies of marketization
Distribution, dis-sumption and dis-appointment
Pop-up ports and port creep in the logistics city
Gobernanza de la expansión
Adverse articulation
Using the flow regimes framework to de‐hierarchise the analysis of commercial movements
Regulating logistics
From local site to global logics. Infrastructure, capitalism and violence
The frictions of highway protests in U.S. cities and the legislative backlash
Covid capitalism
Logistical geographies
Re-forming resource entrepôts
States of circulation
The (in)visible face of global infrastructures
Reflections on circulation, logistics, and the frontiers of capitalist supply chains
Anthropology of and from the Ocean
Magical math hand-waving
Freetown and World War II
The Deadly Life of Logistics
The War Machines
Governmentality
Global Assemblages
The new zones of circulation
Five theses on understanding logistics as power
Geography, transport and Africa’s proximity gap
Supply Chains and the Human Condition
The difference that ‘capitalism’ makes
Making the Most of Ports in West Africa
Ebola and the production of neglect in global health
West Africa Under Colonial Rule
Mobilizing research on Africa's development corridors
Extending the margins of marketization
A Geography of Logistics
Diverse economies
The Uses of Neoliberalism
After Geopolitics? From the Geopolitical Social to Geoeconomics
Geopolitics at the margins? Reconsidering genealogies of critical geopolitics
Logistics at Work
Introduction
Holding together logistical worlds
A topolographical approach to infrastructure
Enacting Logistical Geographies
Tracking and Tracing
Capital's logistical fix
Strategic coupling as capacity
Rethinking the Port
Ethnographic Circulations
Transforming Globalization and Security
Recasting maritime governance in Ghana
Feminist Theory
From the Margins
Necropolitics
Technological Zones
Spatializing States
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |