Description
Please help me with my questions.
Write an approximately 250-300 word response by covering points 1-3 below for each term.
Each response is worth 10%
- Definition of the term/idea/ concept in YOUR OWN WORDS
- Connect the term/idea concept to at least one of the readings. Describe how the author uses the term/concept/ idea and what it means to their analysis.
- Application (an example of how it is used in the real world)
LIST OF TERMS / IDEAS/ CONCEPTS
- Containerization
- Blackboxing
- The sixth footprint
SAMPLE RESPONSE
Racial legacies of logistics
We can turn to the Atlantic slave trade to understand the racial origins of logistics; the process of shipping goods/commodities around the world, as inventory, began with the movement of African slaves to the western world. In order to transport these goods (ie slaves), people needed to come up with standardized ways to calculate the number of bodies that could be stored in the ships hold. This way, they could ensure that they shipped as many slaves as possible in the hold. Moten and Harney use the concept of the racial legacies of logistics to unfold, beginning with the Atlantic slave trade, the racialized bodies and processes at work in logistics. The labor of logistics, as Deborah Cowen has pointed out, is dangerous work. Cowen has shown how underneath this shiny and seemingly smooth, high-tech world of logistics, there is an underworld of damaged and sacrificed bodies. Logistics a dangerous form of labor; it is not the most appealing job for many because it requires a lot of physically demanding work that wears down bodies. It is, therefore, not what is ideologically categorized as white labor. It is the labor of the Other. We see the extension of the racial origins of logistics in the fact that logistics is a field of labor today that is disproportionately staffed by immigrant/ of color people.