A Collective Research on Logistics, Spaces, Labour
Third volume of the series I Quaderni di Into the Black Box.It is possible to read and download the full text here.Below the index and the introduction. INTRODUCTION: READING LOGISTICAL OPERATIONS THROUGH THE PRISM OF GENDEREvelina Gambino, Irene Peano, Into the Black Box GENDERING LOGISTICS: SUBJECTIVITIES, BIOPOLITICS AND EXTRACTION IN SUPPLY CHAINSIrene Peano RACIALIZED MASCULINITIES …
The global capitalist supply chain is controlled by white hegemonic masculinity.[1] Affluent, corporate-elite, straight white men are structurally positioned as the managers and overseers of a vast global logistics labor force comprised primarily of working-class men of color. Throughout the logistics-driven global economy, logistics workers remain highly segregated by both gender and race. Starting from …
In a recent film by Ermalo Magradze, a Georgian film-maker famous for his trash-movies depicting the country’s life, we see a character sat in a car, he is the Prime Minister, he seems demoralised and he is complaining to his interlocutor: ‘We are stuck Mr Kakha, investors are very difficult to attract’ – says the …
In the domain of critical logistical studies, now a burgeoning field, the analysis of gender relations is largely neglected, being a rare occurrence in scholarly as much as in political, activist and militant reflections. One explanation for this might lie in the fact that logistics, as some analysts contend, is (still) a male-dominated industry – …
Far from working-class stereotypes of manhood, some logistics workers develop a “respectable” popular style of masculinity. But the intensification of the labor process makes this a difficult feature to maintain and often captured them in these stereotypes. This article has been written up using the results of my PhD, which I defended last year (Rivoal, …