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Author Cowen, Deborah, author.

Title The deadly life of logistics : mapping violence in global trade / Deborah Cowen
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 290 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction: the citizenship of stuff in the global social factory -- The revolution in logistics: "America's last dark continent" -- From national borders to global seams: the rise of supply chain security -- The labor of logistics: just-in-time jobs -- The geo-economics of piracy: the 'Somali pirate' and the remaking of international law -- Logistics cities: the "urban heart" of empire -- Conclusion: rough trade? Sex, death, and the queer 'nature' of circulation
Summary In a world in which global trade is at risk, where warehouses and airports, shipping lanes and seaports try to guard against the likes of Al Qaeda and Somali pirates, and natural disaster can disrupt the flow of goods, even our "stuff" has a political life. The high stakes of logistics are not surprising, Deborah Cowen reveals, if we understand its genesis in war. In The Deadly Life of Logistics, Cowen traces the art and science of logistics over the last sixty years, from the battlefield to the boardroom and back again. Focusing on choke points such as national borders, zones of piracy, blockades, and cities, she tracks contemporary efforts to keep goods circulating and brings to light the collective violence these efforts produce. She investigates how the old military art of logistics played a critical role in the making of the global economic order-not simply the globalization of production, but the invention of the supply chain and the reorganization of national economies into transnational systems. While reshaping the world of production and distribution, logistics is also actively reconfiguring global maps of security and citizenship, a phenomenon Cowen charts through the rise of supply chain security, with its challenge to long-standing notions of state sovereignty and border management. Though the object of corporate and governmental logistical efforts is commodity supply, The Deadly Life of Logistics demonstrates that they are deeply political-and, considered in the context of the long history of logistics, deeply indebted to the practice of war
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Business logistics -- Political aspects
Cargo theft.
Freight and freightage -- Security measures
International trade -- Political aspects
Piracy.
Trade routes -- Security measures
Transportation corridors -- Political aspects
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Transportation.
TRANSPORTATION -- Public Transportation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
Transport.
Cargo theft
Freight and freightage -- Security measures
International trade -- Political aspects
Piracy
Trade routes -- Security measures
Welthandel
Logistik
Gewalt
Seeräuberei
Transportväsen -- politiska aspekter.
Logistik -- politiska aspekter.
Handelsvägar -- säkerhetsaspekter.
Fraktavtal -- säkerhetsaspekter.
Sjöröveri.
Internationell handel -- politiska aspekter.
Transport.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2014002042
ISBN 9781452943183
1452943184
9780816680870
0816680876
9780816680887
0816680884