Cargomobilities

Moving Materials in a Global Age

Thomas Birtchnell, Satya Savitzky, John Urry (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

250 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-72095-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.4.2015
Reihe/Serie	Changing Mobilities
Zusatzinfo	3 Tables, black and white; 8 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white; 16 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	498 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-415-72095-8 / 0415720958
ISBN-13	978-0-415-72095-3 / 9780415720953
Zustand	Neuware