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3. Spatialization of Calculability, Financialization of Space: A Study of the Kolkata Port

verfasst von : Iman Mitra

Erschienen in: Logistical Asia

Verlag: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

This chapter seeks to understand logistical governance from two specific yet interconnected perspectives, that is, the spatialization of calculability and the financialization of space. The Kolkata (erstwhile Calcutta) Port is a site where these two perspectives collide and communicate with each other and give birth to a particular form of logistical governance. This form of governance requires negotiations with, and navigations through, a network of institutional apparatuses which produce the material basis of calculations and speculations that envisage the connections between infrastructure and logistics. I show that logistical governance in the Kolkata Port rests on the particularities of correspondence between institutional apparatuses like the Kolkata Port Trust (the semi-autonomous management authority which runs the port) and specific regimes of calculability and speculation.

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Fußnoten
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Currently, KoPT handles both the Kolkata Dock System (KDS) in Kolkata and the Haldia Dock Complex (HDC) in Haldia—The Calcutta Port Rules (1994) specify that the ‘docks’ under KoPT include ‘Kidderpore Docks, Netaji Subhash Dock, Garden Reach Jetties, [and] Haldia Oil Jetties’ (Ministry of Surface Transport 1995, Chapter 1, Article 12).
 
2
Indian Ports Association is a ‘full-fledged professional body [which] renders Consultancy services on variety of subjects related to Port Development, improvement of Operational Efficiency and various issues directly involved in the overall Port Management’ (Indian Port Association 2015).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Spatialization of Calculability, Financialization of Space: A Study of the Kolkata Port
verfasst von
Iman Mitra
Copyright-Jahr
2018
Verlag
Springer Singapore
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8333-4_3