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1. Making Logistical Worlds

Authors : Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter, Ranabir Samaddar

Published in: Logistical Asia

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

This chapter describes the main contribution of the volume in rethinking the changing economic and political parameters of Asian regionalism through the analytical lens of logistics. Within the nexus of logistics, society, and history, it becomes possible to understand the political imperatives within which logistics functions as well as the organization of dissent, resistance, and violence that it often occasions. We investigate how an approach to Asian regionalism through logistics intersects policy visions such as China’s Belt and Road initiative and critical perspectives such as those associated with the concept of postcolonial capitalism. In this way, the chapter asks how logistics provides a background for questioning the established borders of Asia and the relations between its traditionally conceived subregions.

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Metadata
Title
Making Logistical Worlds
Authors
Brett Neilson
Ned Rossiter
Ranabir Samaddar
Copyright Year
2018
Publisher
Springer Singapore
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8333-4_1