Logistical Asia : the labour of making a world region / edited by Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter and Ranabir Samaddar
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- 7765481
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- Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
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- 9789811083334 ((electronic bk.))
- 9811083339 ((electronic bk.))
- Invalid ISBN:
- 9789811083327
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- Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Images; Chapter 1: Making Logistical Worlds; Port as Infrastructure of Postcolonial Capitalism; Logistics of Asia-Led Globalization; Coda; References; Part I: Port as Infrastructure of Postcolonial Capitalism; Chapter 2: The Port of Calcutta in the Imperial Network of South and South-East Asia, 1870s-1950s; A Short History of Calcutta Port; Warehouses; Transport; Coda; References; Chapter 3: Spatialization of Calculability, Financialization of Space: A Study of the Kolkata Port; Setting the Framework
- Kolkata Port Trust as an Institutional ApparatusThe Question of Land; The Paradigm of Asian Connectivity; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Ports and Crime; Routine or Rarest of the Rare?; Case 1; Case 2; Case 3; The Port and Its Vicinity; History of Port and Crimes; Labour, Theft, and Strike; Gendered Crimes in the Port; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Haldia: Logistics and Its Other(s); Haldia: History and the Present; Notes on Fieldwork: Centres, Margins, and Displacements; The 'Other' Logistics; Conclusion; References
- Chapter 6: Kolkata Port: Challenges of Geopolitics and GlobalizationSagar: The Future of Kolkata Port System; Modernizing for Survival; Region-Making: Logistics or Geopolitics; References; Part II: Logistics of Asia-Led Globalization; Chapter 7: The Importance of Being Siliguri: Border Effect and the 'Untimely' City in North Bengal; Defence; Pathways; Migrant Business; Trafficking; Tea; Coda; References; Chapter 8: Piraeus Port as a Machinic Assemblage: Labour, Precarity, and Struggles; Piraeus as 'a Territory Within a Territory'; The Piraeus Container Terminal as a Machinic Assemblage
- Machinic IdlenessConclusion; References; Chapter 9: Asia's Era of Infrastructure and the Politics of Corridors: Decoding the Language of Logistical Governance; Corridors, Supply Chains, and Logistical Governance; Heterarchies and the Political Productivity of Bottlenecks; Asia's Era of Infrastructure and the Politics of Corridors; Economy, Space, and History: Corridors as Political Forms in the Logistical Century; Conclusion; References; Chapter 10: Logistics of the Accident: E-Waste Management in Hong Kong; Order/Disorder and Power; E-Waste: Product or Residue; Ambiguity and/as Governance
- Flexible Logistics and Aleatory ForcesConclusion; References; Chapter 11: Geopolitics of the Belt and Road: Space, State, and Capital in China and Pakistan; Securing the Spatial Fix; The Spatiality of Accumulation and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor; The Spatiality of Over-Accumulation; China-Pakistan: 'Sweeter than Honey, Stronger than Steel'; The Fractures and Antagonisms of Social Space; Conclusion; References; Chapter 12: Becoming Immaterial Labour: The Case of Macau's Internet Users; Revisiting the Field; Macau's Internet Landscape; What They Produce; How They Produce
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 07, 2018).
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