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Logistica e Stato nel presente globale. Sovranità, corridoi, confini
Full text linkOnly recently logistics has become an object of research for social sciences and political theory. As something more than a technical element, or something limited to specific productive functions, logistics is indeed increasingly understood as one of the vectors in the field of forces against which one can grasp the transformations of politics in the global era. Logistical processes are part of the changes in trans- portation, distribution and production that made globalization happen and allow contemporary capitalism to operate. But logistics is also a powerful logic behind processes of optimization and organization that impact on the space and time coor- dinates of contemporary politics. Logistics is thus an angle from which to discern elements of integration and logics that remain often excluded from the analysis on the transformations of sovereignty, of the state and of the border. This article uses the lenses of logistics to discuss the formation of new political spaces and eccentric institutional forms prompted by supply chain capitalism. The article introduces the concept of the politics of corridors as a way to name these spaces and forms and the way they have become shared across a number of actors across the globe. The article argues that the politics of corridors highlights the way in which logistical processes impact on the powers and capacities of state’ administration and have become shared priorities in contemporary politics. It then highlights the fact that this does not correspond to the emergence of an homogeneous world, but rather to the production of differences and hierarchies that reinscribe sovereignty, the state and the national border against the transnational background, and originate new manifestations of the border along different lines of clustering and differentiation. The article ends discussing the way in which the discourses on the return of the state and so called neo-sovereignism, while grasp the emergence of nationalist agen- das, overlook the way in which logistical processes transform the state, the global and their relation, rather than producing an opposition between the two, and how sovereignism and nationalism are also part of this transformation
La governance delle catene del valore e le sfide per l’organizzazione dei lavoratori: una prospettiva globale
No full textL’articolo discute le sfide per l’organizzazione dei lavoratori e il conflitto all’interno delle catene del valore, intese come prospettiva olistica sui processi produttivi e di formazione del valore, ampliando la discussione sulla governance a un insieme di elementi economi- ci, amministrativi, giuridici e operativi che determinano le condizioni materiali entro cui esse si formano e si modificano. Adottando una prospettiva globale, il saggio afferma la rilevanza della dimensione transnazionale e dei rapporti di potere, anche formalmente esterni alla sfera produttiva, per la comprensione dell’economia politica dei processi pro- duttivi contemporanei. Nella parte finale, il saggio discute esempi che vengono dalle lotte nella logistica in Italia e dall’organizzazione transnazionale contro Amazon.The article discusses the challenges for workers’ organizing and conflict inside value chains, understood as a holistic perspective on production processes and value formation, by expanding the perspective over governance to the economic, administrative, legal and operative elements that determine the material conditions within which value chains are formed and modified. The essay adopts a global perspective and argues that the transna- tional dimension and power relationships, even if formally external to production, are relevant to an understanding of the political economy of contemporary production processes. In its final section, the article discusses examples from the struggles in the logis- tics sector in Italy and the transnational organization against Amazon
Marta Araújo, Silvia R. Mae- so (eds.), Eurocentrism, Racism and Knowledge. Debates on History and Power in Europe and the Americas, New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2015, pp. 258.
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RECENSIONE A MEDIA AND MANAGEMENT. Di Rutvica Andrijasevic, Melissa Gregg, Marc Steinberg, Julie Yujie Chen (University of Minnesota Press 2021)
No full textQuesto volume, che si propone in prima battuta di intervenire all’interno degli studi sui media e sul management, contiene diversi elementi utili ad inquadrare un tema come le migrazioni all’interno del contesto materiale che caratterizza il capitalismo contemporaneo
(Post)Colonial State and Constitutionalism in India. Differences and Crossings
No full textThe article argues that the end of the formal division of the world between a colonizing metropolis and a colonized periphery requires a different reading of the State’s history. The essay deals with the relation between the formation of British India and the development of Indian nationalist movement through the events related to the ‘tiger of Mysore’, Tipu Sultan, and the swadeshi movement as portrayed in Tagore’s The Home and the World. The essay shows how colonial constitutionalism developed through the contemporary affirmation of the rule of law and the colonial difference. The postcolonial State emerged via concrete crossing of this difference, which today allows a different reading of the political discourses beyond the affirmation of the State as the barycenter of political organization at a global scale
Infrastrutture e spazi politici nei processi globali: stati-piattaforma, agglomerati transnazionali, corridoi
Full text linkInfrastructure and logistics are constitutive dimensions of global processes and a constant field for redefining the relationship between political spaces and spaces of capital. Using critical contributions from various disciplinary fields, the article analyzes the relationship between an international framework marked by the effects of logistic transformations, processes of infrastructuring and renewed state activism. It focuses on the emergence of platform-states, transnational agglomerates and corridors as political spaces.Le infrastrutture e la logistica sono dimensioni costitutive dei processi globali e un campo di costante ridefinizione del rapporto tra spazi politici e spazi del capitale. Utilizzando contributi critici provenienti da diversi ambiti disciplinari, l’articolo analizza il rapporto tra un quadro internazionale segnato dagli effetti delle trasformazioni logistiche, dai processi di infrastrutturazione e dal rinnovato attivismo statale, concentrandosi sull’emergere degli Stati-piattaforma, degli agglomerati transnazionali e dei corridoi come spazi politici
La gestione e la produzione delle differenze: razza e razzismo nei processi lavorativi italiani
Full text linkAsia’s Era of Infrastructure and the Politics of Corridors: Decoding the Language of Logistical Governance
No full textThe essay analyses the politics of corridors as an inner logic of Asia’s Era of Infrastructure and the emergence of corridors as logistical institutions. By analyzing texts and policies prompted by international organizations such as the World Bank or the ADB or actors such as China along the so-called Belt and Road, the essay shows that corridors, from a subterranean trend in the history of the relation between economy and space, are now emerging as a commonsense reference in discourses of governance and policy-making. The essay argues that corridors take the political reorganization achieved through zones a step further and produce specific governing dynamics and agencies whose role is growing as a consequence of the relevance assumed by logistics, connectivity and infrastructure for global politics
National case studies: Perspectives of justice and implications for the EUMSG
No full textThis chapter draws together the results of the preliminary analysis on the migration legislation of Italy, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Greece and Norway. Considered together, and examined thorough the lens of the three conceptions of justice examined above, the case studies point out the tensions and potential contradictions
existing both between the different demands of justice and, empirically, within several components of the EU Migration System of Governance (EUMSG)
Three problems without a solution: themilitant research conundrumand the social condition of migration
No full textThe article deals with the relation between research and militancy considering migration as a total social fact, employing different theoretical tools coming from the autonomy of migration theory, migrant labour studies and postcolonial critique. By posing to the reader three problems without a solution, the article frames the main features of what the author calls the migration and militant research conundrum. The essay briefly defines the three problems as the problem of the researcher, the problem of militancy in migration research and the problem of politics and migration. The article argues that if it is true that migration is a social relation mediated by different statuses/documents/definitions in the transnational space, it is thus fundamental both for the researcher and for the militant to critically analyze what does it means to be part of this social relation in postcolonial capitalism conditions. The institutional racism produced by different authorities, from the States to international assemblages, and the transnational labour market must be taken into account. Therefore, in order to address the migration and militant research conundrum in a productive manner, it is crucial to understand the specific position of the militant and the researcher vis-à-vis the materiality of rule and the larger political dimension of migration
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