Logistical Asia (eBook)

Brett Neilson is Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. With Sandro Mezzadra, he is author of Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor (2013). With Ned Rossiter, he has coordinated the project Logistical Worlds: Infrastructure, Software, Labour.Ned Rossiter is Professor of Communication with a joint appointment in the Institute for Culture and Society and the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. His most recent book is Infrastructure, Software, Labor: A Media Theory of Logistical Nightmares (2016).Ranabir Samaddar is Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies at the Calcutta Research Group. His research focuses on migration and refugee studies, nationalism and post-colonial statehood, and new regimes of technological restructuring and labour control. His most recent book is Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age (2017).

1. Making Logistical WorldsPart I Port as Infrastructure of Postcolonial Capitalism2. The Port of Calcutta in the Imperial Network of South and South-East Asia, 1870s-1950s3. Spatialization of Calculability, Financialization of Space: A Study of the Kolkata Port4. Ports and Crime5. Haldia: Logistics and Its Other(s)6. Kolkata Port: Challenges of Geopolitics and GlobalizationPart II Logistics of Asia-Led Globalization7. The Importance of Being Siliguri: Border Effect and the ‘Untimely’ City in North Bengal8. Piraeus Port as a Machinic Assemblage: Labour, Precarity and Struggles9. Asia’s Era of Infrastructure and the Politics of Corridors: Decoding the Language of Logistical Governance10. Logistics of the Accident: E-waste Management in Hong Kong11. Geopolitics of the Belt and Road: Space, State, and Capital in China and Pakistan12. Becoming Immaterial Labour: The Case of Macau’s Internet Users13. Follow the Software: Reflections on the Logistical Worlds Project