Logistical Asia The Labour of Making a World Region
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
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Ranabir Samaddar
LOGISTICAL ASIA
THE LABOUR OF MAKING A WORLD REGIO
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Logistical Asia
Brett Neilson • Ned Rossiter Ranabir Samaddar Editors
Logistical Asia The Labour of Making a World Region
Editors Brett Neilson Institute for Culture and Society Western Sydney University Parramatta, NSW, Australia
Ned Rossiter Institute for Culture and Society Western Sydney University Parramatta, NSW, Australia
Ranabir Samaddar Calcutta Research Group Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Acknowledgements
Although the chapters in this book focus on logistics in the making of the Asian region, and in particularly the city of Kolkata, they are the fruit of a longer research project dubbed ‘Logistical Worlds: Infrastructure, Software, Labour,’ which was conducted across the cities of Athens, Kolkata, and Valparaíso. The editors would like to extend thanks to the authors as well as all the other researchers who participated in ‘research platforms’ staged in these cities. In Athens, these researchers include Ursula Huws, Anna Lascari, Ilias Marmaras, Sandro Mezzadra, Dimitrios Parsanoglou, Carolin Philipp, and William Walters. In Kolkata, they include Orit Halpern, Mithilesh Kumar, Sugata Marjit, Cecile Martin, Immanuel Ness, and Elisabeth Simbürger. In Valparaíso, they include Jamie All
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