Cargomobilities Moving Materials in a Global Age [Hardcover]

Objects and materials are on the move like never before, often at astonishing speeds and along hidden routeways. This collection opens to social scientific scrutiny the various systems which move objects about the world, examining their fateful implications for many people and places. Offering texts from key thinkers, the book presents case studies from around the world which report on efforts to establish, maintain, disrupt or transform the cargo-mobility systems which have grown so dramatically in scale and significance in recent decades.

1. Moving cargos, Thomas Birtchnell, Satya Savitzky and John Urry  1.1. Taking Stock  1.2. The Smooth System  1.3. Forgotten Spaces  1.4. Friction and Insecurities in the Smooth System  1.5. Other Systems  1.6. Cargo and resources  1.7. Changing cargomobilities?  2. Distribution Centres as Distributed Places: Mobility, infrastructure, and truck traffic, Julie Cidell  2.1. Introduction  2.2. Space and Spatiality  2.3. Freight, Warehousing, and Distribution Centres  2.4. Distribution Centres as Distributed Places  2.5. Mobility within the Distribution Centre  2.6. Distributed Mobility  2.7. Distributed Labor  2.8. Distribution of Information  2.9. Distribution and Distributed Places  3. Maritime Cargomobilities: The impossibilities of representation, Philip E. Steinberg  3.1. Cartographies of Maritime Transport  3.2. The Forgotten Space  3.3. Enacting Cargomobilities  3.4. Conclusion  4. A City that Exports Air: Containers, traffic and logistics in Sydneys intermodal network and beyond, Brett Neilson  4.1. The Container in Time  4.2. China-led Globalization  4.3. Sydney Traffic  4.4. Conclusion &l£+