dead malls: suburban activism, local spaces, global logistics pdf

In this introductory essay, we take stock of the ascendancy and proliferation of logistics, proposing a critical engagement with the field. more Since the mid-20th century, logistics has evolved into a wide-ranging science of circulation involved in planning and managing flows of innumerable kinds. Since the mid-20th century, logistics has evolved into a wide-ranging science of circulation invo. I suggest that national security policy as backdoor labour pol. In this paper I look at ongoing struggles over port security in Canada. Moreover, there are plans to generalize these programs across the transport sector - a large part of the labour force that includes trucking, mass transit, airport, and rail workers. New security regulations threaten to institutionalize racial profiling and undermine collective bargaining.

Security clearance programs, under development for port workers, compromise employment security by making workers and their families subject to invasive screenings that violate privacy, allow for job suspension based on 'reasonable suspicion' of terrorist affiliation, and offer no meaningful independent appeals process.

The rapidly expanding infrastructure of national security policy in Canada compromises labour rights and social forms of security. more Systems of social protection are being quickly and quietly recast by developments in a surprising policy area. Systems of social protection are being quickly and quietly recast by developments in a surprising. The brief sketches that follow emphasize the co-constitution of law and infrastructure, yet they also prop. To this day, imperial powers assert jurisdiction over space through infrastructures that enhance or inhibit the motion of goods and people, like railroads, pipelines, border walls, and police.2 This Essay investigates the co-production of colonial law and infrastructure on Turtle Island-an Indigenous name for the continent of North America, which already highlights a different conception of jurisdiction and law through its anchor in creation stories. Here, the authority to have authority is often asserted in practice through violent attempts to control connectivity and movement. This intimacy is palpable in the context of settler worldmaking where colonial jurisdiction is enacted by constraining, with an eye to replacing, Indigenous jurisdiction. more Heraclitus's words remind us that law and infrastructure have lived in intimate relation, in practice and thought, for millennia. Heraclitus's words remind us that law and infrastructure have lived in intimate relation, in.

Dead malls: suburban activism, local spaces, global logistics pdf