Logistical Asia The Labour of Making a World Region /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Neilson, Brett (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Rossiter, Ned (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Samaddar, Ranabir (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Asia-Economic conditions.; Economic geography.; Business logistics.; Asian Economics.; Economic Geography.; Logistics.

This book explores how the management science of logistics changes working lives and contributes to the making of world regions. With a focus on the port of Kolkata and changing patterns of Asian regionalism, the volume examines how logistics entwine with political power, historical forces, labour m...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Making Logistical Worlds
• Part I Port as Infrastructure of Postcolonial Capitalism
• 2. The Port of Calcutta in the Imperial Network of South and South-East Asia, 1870s-1950s
• 3. Spatialization of Calculability, Financialization of Space: A Study of the Kolkata Port
• 4. Ports and Crime
• 5. Haldia: Logistics and Its Other(s)
• 6. Kolkata Port: Challenges of Geopolitics and Globalization
• Part II Logistics of Asia-Led Globalization
• 7. The Importance of Being Siliguri: Border Effect and the 'Untimely' City in North Bengal
• 8. Piraeus Port as a Machinic Assemblage: Labour, Precarity and Struggles
• 9. Asia's Era of Infrastructure and the Politics of Corridors: Decoding the Language of Logistical Governance
• 10. Logistics of the Accident: E-waste Management in Hong Kong
• 11. Geopolitics of the Belt and Road: Space, State, and Capital in China and Pakistan
• 12. Becoming Immaterial Labour: The Case of Macau's Internet Users
• 13. Follow the Software: Reflections on the Logistical Worlds Project.