Cargomobilities (eBook, ePUB)

Moving Materials in a Global Age
Redaktion: Birtchnell, Thomas; Urry, John; Savitzky, Satya

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection aims to be the definitive text in the mobilities portfolio on cargo; containers and containerization; manufacturing and production; offshoring; logistics and distribution; air, land and sea freight; maritime mobilities and the sociology of the sea.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317961406
• Artikelnr.: 42643726

Autorenporträt

Thomas Birtchnell is Lecturer in Geography and Sustainable Communities, University of Wollongong. Satya Savitzky is a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University. John Urry is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Moving cargos, Thomas Birtchnell, Satya Savitzky and John Urry 1.1.
Taking Stock 1.2. The Smooth System 1.3. Forgotten Spaces 1.4. Friction and
Insecurities in the Smooth System 1.5. Other Systems 1.6. Cargo and
resources 1.7. Changing cargomobilities? 2. Distribution Centres as
Distributed Places: Mobility, infrastructure, and truck traffic, Julie
Cidell 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Space and Spatiality 2.3. Freight,
Warehousing, and Distribution Centres 2.4. Distribution Centres as
Distributed Places 2.5. Mobility within the Distribution Centre 2.6.
Distributed Mobility 2.7. Distributed Labor 2.8. Distribution of
Information 2.9. Distribution and Distributed Places 3. Maritime
Cargomobilities: The impossibilities of representation, Philip E. Steinberg
3.1. Cartographies of Maritime Transport 3.2. The Forgotten Space 3.3.
Enacting Cargomobilities 3.4. Conclusion 4. A City that Exports Air:
Containers, traffic and logistics in Sydney's intermodal network and
beyond, Brett Neilson 4.1. The Container in Time 4.2. China-led
Globalization 4.3. Sydney Traffic 4.4. Conclusion 5. Smuggling mobilities:
Parasitic relations, and the aporetic openness of the shipping container,
Craig Martin 5.1. Introduction 5.2. The Distributive Space of
Cargomobilities 5.3. The Intermodal ISO Shipping Container 5.4. Unruly
Cargomobilities 5.5. Parasitic Relations 5.6. Parasitic Entanglements of
Legal and Illegal Cargomobilities 5.7. The Smuggler-Object: Nesting on the
flow of parasitic relations 5.8. Conclusion 6. The New Zones of
Circulation: On the production and securitisation of maritime frontiers in
West Africa, Julian Stenmanns, Stefan Ouma 6.1. Introduction 6.2. Reframing
West African Econom