ABSTRACT
Objects and materials are on the move like never before, often at astonishing speeds and along hidden routeways. This collection opens to social scientific scrutiny the various systems which move objects about the world, examining their fateful implications for many people and places. Offering texts from key thinkers, the book presents case studies from around the world which report on efforts to establish, maintain, disrupt or transform the cargo-mobility systems which have grown so dramatically in scale and significance in recent decades.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|18 pages
Distribution centers as distributed places
Mobility, infrastructure and truck traffic
chapter 4|17 pages
A city that exports air
Containers, traffic and logistics in Sydney's intermodal network and beyond
chapter 5|22 pages
Smuggling mobilities
Parasitic relations, and the aporetic openness of the shipping container
chapter 6|19 pages
The new zones of circulation
On the production and securitisation of maritime frontiers in West Africa