Ports and Platforms: Aesthetics of Collective Organising against Structures of Logistical Control
"Ports and Platforms: Aesthetics of Collective Organising against Structures of Logistical Control" features video documentation of the decision-making processes during the union’s most recent strike in Gothenburg, and connects this to broader global issues of the loss of workers’ (human)...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Gothenburg
2020-11-01
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| Series: | Parse Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://parsejournal.com/article/ports-and-platforms-aesthetics-of-collective-organising-against-structures-of-logistical-control/ |
| Summary: | "Ports and Platforms: Aesthetics of Collective Organising against Structures of Logistical Control" features video documentation of the decision-making processes during the union’s most recent strike in Gothenburg, and connects this to broader global issues of the loss of workers’ (human) rights in the accelerating demands of the contemporary “smart city”.
Exposing the human costs resulting from this process of maximisation, Gerdes proposes the use and importance of critical logistic studies alongside listening and distributing the subjective lived accounts of workers to challenge and collectively strategize a "transnational counter-logistics". |
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| ISSN: | 2002-0953 |