Open AccessTracking and Tracing: Geographies of Logistical Governance and Labouring Bodies
Author(s) -
Anja Kanngieser
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
environment and planning. d, society and space/environment and planning. d, society and space
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.655
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1472-3433
pISSN - 0263-7758
DOI - 10.1068/d24611
Subject(s) - radio frequency identification , corporate governance , telematics , constellation , business , economic geography , economy , economics , telecommunications , computer security , computer science , finance , physics , astronomy
Shifts in the production of national and global territories have coincided with new forms of biopolitical governance and surveillance, producing a simultaneous expansion and contraction of spatial and temporal mobility. In the logistics industries the mainstreaming of Radio Frequency Identification, the extended monitoring networks of GPS telematics, and the implementation of voice picking in warehouses have all had significant impacts on the mobilities of labour. Given the increasing scholarly interest in logistical geographies, this paper investigates these three advancements put to use for the regulation of bodies in the market environments of global capital from a technohistorical perspective, to provide a frame for further discourse on global supply chains, labour struggles, and security cultures.