Introduction: Turbulent Circulation: Building a Critical Engagement with Logistics
Introduction: Turbulent Circulation: Building a Critical Engagement with Logistics
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10.1177/0263775818783101
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2018-08
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Charmaine Chua;Martin Danyluk;Deborah E. Cowen;L. Khalili
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Charmaine Chua;Martin Danyluk;Deborah E. Cowen;L. Khalili
自20世纪中期以来，物流已经发展成为一门涉及范围广泛的流通科学，涉及规划和管理无数种类的流动。在这篇介绍性文章中，我们对物流的优势和扩散进行了评估，并提出了与该领域的关键接触。我们认为，物流并不局限于供应链的管理，军事或企业。相反，它最好被理解为一种计算逻辑和循环的空间实践，它处于资本主义和战争重组的前沿。从这个角度来看，物流的兴起不仅改变了物质的物理运动，也改变了组织空间的合理性。它按照抽象流动的普遍化逻辑重塑了经济和军事空间，加剧了现有的不平衡的地理发展格局。借鉴构成本主题问题的文章，我们提出物流的批判性方法以三个核心承诺为特征：(1)拒绝该领域作为一门非政治的管理科学的自我描述，同时致力于强调支撑它的权力关系和暴力行为；(2)有兴趣揭露后勤制度的缺陷、不合理和脆弱性；(3)物流网络内部的竞争和斗争取向。
Since the mid-20th century, logistics has evolved into a wide-ranging science of circulation involved in planning and managing flows of innumerable kinds. In this introductory essay, we take stock of the ascendancy and proliferation of logistics, proposing a critical engagement with the field. We argue that logistics is not limited to the management of supply chains, military or corporate. Rather, it is better understood as a calculative logic and spatial practice of circulation that is at the fore of the reorganization of capitalism and war. Viewed from this perspective, the rise of logistics has transformed not only the physical movement of materials but also the very rationality by which space is organized. It has remade economic and military space according to a universalizing logic of abstract flow, exacerbating existing patterns of uneven geographical development. Drawing on the articles that make up this themed issue, we propose that a critical approach to logistics is characterized by three core commitments: (1) a rejection of the field’s self-depiction as an apolitical science of management, along with a commitment to highlighting the relations of power and acts of violence that underpin it; (2) an interest in exposing the flaws, irrationalities, and vulnerabilities of logistical regimes; and (3) an orientation toward contestation and struggle within logistical networks.