Tracking and Tracing: Geographies of Logistical Governance and Labouring Bodies

Kanngieser, Anja

doi:10.1068/d24611

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“…These systems translate, and make visible, cargo as data, and that data is the primary means by which global trade is both regulated by customs agents and monitored by surveillance services. Much as with human air travel, risk analytics is applied to global trade and ordered by the same predictive logics (Cowen 2010b; Kanngieser ). The intent is that global circulation is simultaneously facilitated and secured.…”

Section: Connecting Illicit Economies To Circulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Illicit economies: customary illegality, moral economies and circulation

Gregson

Crang

2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper is concerned with how to think the illicit and illegal as part of economies. Economic geography has only recently begun to address this challenge but in limited ways. The paper shows the difficulties with those approaches, chief among which is a reassertion of the legal/illegal binary of products and actors that is contested by the more open term illicit economies. We draw on work in cultural economy to move economic geography beyond this impasse by seeing economy as practice. The paper develops a conceptual account of illicit economies connecting moral economy and the opacities produced by logistically complex global trade to highlight the importance of customary illegality in doing business. Customary illegality is the tolerance or practice of illicit activities by largely legal economic actors rather than just a focus on illegal goods or criminal actors. Illicitness is thus shown to be neither a property of goods nor of particular economic actors, but rather a transient quality often linked to circulation. The argument is illustrated empirically through three examples drawn from the food sector. The conclusion makes suggestions for future research that are empirical, methodological and conceptual.

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Section: Connecting Illicit Economies To Circulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Illicit economies: customary illegality, moral economies and circulation

Gregson

Crang

2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Precisely because logistics is grounded in the attempt to speed up the turnover time of capital, labour presents a particular significant potential challenge due to the ability of workers to disrupt flows (Fox‐Hodess ; Neilson ; Toscano ). For this reason, in historicising the development of the logistics revolution, authors have paid particular attention to the intrinsic violence of hyper‐securitised supply chains, counterposing such security with the insecure labour that is often involved in the “efficient” movement of commodities (Chua ; Kanngieser ). Moreover, challenging the mainstream construction of business logistics as a technical applied science, others have traced the roots of business logistics within the field of military logistics (Chung ), noting that the “military art of moving soldiers and supplies to the front” has become a “business science” that animates all aspects of war‐making (Cowen :4).…”

Section: Deciphering Humanitarian Logisticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Circulating Power: Humanitarian Logistics, Militarism, and the United Arab Emirates

Ziadah

2019

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While critical authors have interrogated the roots of business logistics, this paper extends the analysis and contributes to a larger critique of the cohering field of Humanitarian Logistics (HL), noting the overlap in the logistical cartographies of militarism and humanitarianism. The focus is on the UAE's expanding logistics space into the Horn of Africa and the production of specialised HL zones like Dubai International Humanitarian City (DIHC). The article makes three core arguments. First, a logistics lens enables us to expand the study of aid beyond immediate conflict zones, into more distant spaces often constructed as "stable". Second, the placement of logistics at the core of aid delivery has been a key mechanism for inserting market imperatives into humanitarian activities. Third, this gives countries outside the advanced core, such as the UAE, power to leverage and expand their logistics space for multiple purposes, in war making, aid, and commercial activities.

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“…It is thus apparent that various benefits for users, manufacturers, local authorities and traffic managers derive from such use of ICTs within the transport sector (Bekhor et al, 2013;Rose, 2006;Steenbruggen et al, 2013;Thakuriah and Geers, 2013 Pleasecycle may foster employer surveillance over their employees in certain industries e.g. logistics (Kanngieser, 2013).…”

Section: Contemporary Applications Of Ict For Transportmentioning

confidence: 99%