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The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade Kindle Edition

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In a world in which global trade is at risk, where warehouses and airports, shipping lanes and seaports try to guard against the likes of Al Qaeda and Somali pirates, and natural disaster can disrupt the flow of goods, even our “stuff” has a political life. The high stakes of logistics are not surprising, Deborah Cowen reveals, if we understand its genesis in war.

In The Deadly Life of Logistics, Cowen traces the art and science of logistics over the last sixty years, from the battlefield to the boardroom and back again. Focusing on choke points such as national borders, zones of piracy, blockades, and cities, she tracks contemporary efforts to keep goods circulating and brings to light the collective violence these efforts produce. She investigates how the old military art of logistics played a critical role in the making of the global economic order—not simply the globalization of production, but the invention of the supply chain and the reorganization of national economies into transnational systems. While reshaping the world of production and distribution, logistics is also actively reconfiguring global maps of security and citizenship, a phenomenon Cowen charts through the rise of supply chain security, with its challenge to long-standing notions of state sovereignty and border management.

Though the object of corporate and governmental logistical efforts is commodity supply, The Deadly Life of Logistics demonstrates that they are deeply political—and, considered in the context of the long history of logistics, deeply indebted to the practice of war.

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"This is an insightful, extremely innovative, and much-needed book. In revealing the histories, genealogies, and geographies of our ‘logistical world,’ The Deadly Life of Logistics opens up crucial issues of contemporary politics that are all too often, as Deborah Cowen says, rendered ‘invisible in plain sight’ by their very ubiquity and normality. Blending deep genealogical insight, social and political theory, and topical contemporary case studies, the book’s fusion is tremendously powerful. It is an immense achievement." —Mimi Sheller, Drexel University

"Fascinating, informative and politically engaged."—We Make Money Not Art

"The Deadly Life of Logistics is both an important contribution to understandings of globalization, security, and economy, and an opening to further inquiry on the political and economic geographies of the material movement of goods."—Antipode

"Thought provoking."—Consumption Markets and Culture

"Cowen’s The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade is a welcome contribution, clearly showing how something as purely technical as logistics has turned into a phenomenon shaping politics in several different relams, and will surely be a good read for those interested in political geography, critical geopolitics, labor rights, the history of logistics, and international relations."—International Studies Review

"Cowen’s [The Deadly Life of Logistics]provides a much-needed alternative and critical reading of the spatial organization of logistics. It is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the changing nature of economic space in neoliberal economies."—The Canadian Geographer

"Cowen’s work rightfully challenges the dominant discourses that have pervaded the academic debates on logistics."—Cultural Geography

"Cowen generates a comprehensive historic and contemporary critique of the everyday violence associated with global trade."—Human Geography

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About the Author

Deborah Cowen is associate professor of geography at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Military Workfare: The Soldier and Social Citizenship in Canada.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00MMV1ZZ4
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Univ Of Minnesota Press; Illustrated edition (September 1, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 1, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 15037 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 328 pages

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Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2017

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A truly eye opening book, providing a new perspective on the reality of global commerce and militarism

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2016

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it is a dense but important book

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2016

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This book provides a comprehensive account in regards to the evolution of logistics from a military afterthought to a key concern of U.S. national security.

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Incomprehensible Word Salad

Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2020

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The headline says it all. It is an incomprehensible word salad attempting to connect logistics to every conceivable socio-economic and political agenda. All that is missing is The Illuminati and/or Freemasons to bind it into some grand conspiracy theory to control the masses.

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Matteo

Inutilmente prolisso

Reviewed in Italy on April 3, 2020

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Il tema è interessante ma trattato in maniera noiosa. La lettura è poco scorrevole.

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Dr. Christian Wurst

Good book on a very important topic

Reviewed in Germany on June 10, 2019

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Many books on logistics are either very technical or narrow, focusing on the "how" of supplying goods. It's indeed the "last dark continent", not only for the US. Deborah Cowen's book fills the void by showing the downside & risks of today's global supply chains. Well done.

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