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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