Doctoral Dissertation Research: Global Economy, Technical Expertise and Mega-Port Development in Northern Morocco

博士论文研究：全球经济，技术专长和大型港口发展在北方摩洛哥本博士研究探讨了全球物流的技术专长，基础设施和日常实践，重点是规划，实施和控制货物和资源从原产地到消费地的全球流动在北方摩洛哥的一个新的大型港口的新兴物流枢纽。通过对物流专业人士的半结构化访谈和对丹吉尔地区学术和现场培训项目的参与观察，本研究将研究马达加斯加培训和为这个不断扩大的行业工作的看法和经验。将在美国最大的物流枢纽洛杉矶和加州的长滩进行为期三个月的比较研究。本研究旨在阐明（1）物流的复杂社会和技术过程，使货物在全球经济中有效流动，（2）全球形式的技术专长是如何在特定地方构成的。智力价值本研究将文化人类学和科学技术研究（STS）的文献联系起来，以促进对全球化，技术专长以及培训全球专家的当地轨迹和影响的社会科学理解。有些人类学家认为，当代世界应该通过追踪事物、人和思想的全球流动来研究。这项研究探讨了全球流动的隐喻的物质和技术层面，因为大多数全球贸易的货物是由物流专家组织的，从字面上流经世界的海洋。这项研究还建立在STS的承诺，以确定社会问题和政治利益，在发展科学和技术专长，在后殖民世界。更广泛的影响全球物流的人种学研究是及时的，因为越来越多的外包航运服务和基础设施，社会和环境影响的大型港口发展，以及不间断的全球商品流动在当前美国国家安全政策中的中心地位。

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Global Economy, Technical Expertise and Mega-PortDevelopment in Northern MoroccoThis doctoral research explores the technical expertise, infrastructure and everyday practices of global logistics,focusing on the planning, implementing, and controlling of the global movement of goods and resources from places of origin to places of consumption at the emerging logistics hub of a new mega-port in Northern Morocco. Through semi-structured interviews with logistics professionals and participant observation in academic and on-site training programs in the Tangier region, this research will examine the perceptions and experiences of Moroccans training and working for this expanding industry. Three months of comparative research will be conducted in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, the largest logistics hub in the United States. This study aims to elucidate (1) the complex social and technical processes of logistics enabling the efficient flow of goods in the global economy and (2) how a global form of technical expertise is constituted in particular places. Intellectual meritThis study will connect literatures in Cultural Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies (STS) in order to advance the social scientific understanding of globalization, technical expertise, and the local trajectories and impacts of training global experts. There are anthropologists who argue that the contemporary world should be studied by tracing the global flows of things, people and ideas. This study examines the material and technical dimension to the metaphor of global flow since most globally traded goods are organized by logistics experts to literally flow across the world's oceans. This study also builds on the commitment in STS to identify the social issues and political stakes in developing scientific and technological expertise in the post-colonial world.Broader impactsAn ethnographic study of global logistics is timely given the increasing outsourcing of shipping services and infrastructure, the social and environmental impacts of mega-port development, and the centrality of uninterrupted global flows of goods in current US national security policy.