Global territories: zones of economic and legal dis/connectivity

Opitz, Sven; Tellmann, Ute

doi:10.1080/1600910x.2012.724432

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“…The better-documented process of financialisation has its counterpart in the massive investment in infrastructure of circulation, such as ports, railroads, and other digital and network trade technology (Birtchnell, Savitzky, and Urry 2015). Capital is mobile, but also builds on offices, national affiliations, off-shore zones and ports; territoriality is not vanishing, but it remains crucial for enabling globality for some citizens, whilst excluding others (Jessop, Brenner, and Jones 2008;Opitz and Tellmann 2012). Others have stressed that logistics has created an abstract space, one in which ports are integrated through processes of containerisation, unitisation and standardisation (Martin 2014), where ports and the technologies of making things flow are contested, and any (idea of ) seam space is merely a product that needs to be reified and worked out in different contexts (Gregson, Crang, and Antonopoulos 2017).…”

Section: Global Infrastructure Hubs: Critical Security Studies Meets mentioning

confidence: 99%

Mobilising security and logistics through an African port: A controversies approach to infrastructure

Hönke

Cuesta-Fernandez

2018

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Section: Global Infrastructure Hubs: Critical Security Studies Meets mentioning

confidence: 99%

Mobilising security and logistics through an African port: A controversies approach to infrastructure

Hönke

Cuesta-Fernandez

2018

Mobilities

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“…In our deployment the zones are spaces of governing that 'emerge by parcelling off a bounded area as a specific regulatory space' and are thus non-contiguous and distinctive from their surrounding jurisdiction (Opitz and Tellmann 2012, 263). There is significant heterogeneity inherent in the zones as they may form spaces that are at once global and territorial (Opitz and Tellmann 2012), and they may take shape as territorially fixed zones (Vandergeest and Peluso 1995;Ong 2006) but they may also take shape as regulatory spaces formed by the standardisation of technical practices (Barry 2006). This heterogeneity is also present in the zones we analyse.…”

Section: Frontier Constellations and Zones Of Exclusion In Cambodiamentioning

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Overlapping zones of exclusion: carbon markets, corporate hydropower enclaves and timber extraction in Cambodia

Käkönen

Thuon

2018

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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This contribution looks at the interplay of different logics of governing the environment, resources and people in Cambodia that materialise in overlapping zones of exclusion, thereby coproducing new relations of resource control in a complex frontier constellation: a frontier for water, forest and carbon commodities and also for state control. Focusing on three Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) hydropower dams, the paper analyses a partly unintentional, but significantly consequential coalescence of distinct spaces of governing located in the Cardamom Mountains: a forest conservation zone, the CDM technological zone, an enclaved corporate hydropower zone and a semi-official timber logging zone. While the CDM element has exposed the projects internationally, it has obscured several problematic aspects and dynamics of resource politics connected to the dams that are revealed in this paper. These include the vulnerabilisation of local fisher communities, incarceral labour practices on the dams' construction sites and accelerated logging in the conservation zone. The paper also shows how the interaction of the studied zones takes place through their distinct mechanisms of exclusion with the effects of more centralised resource control and the bracketing of the associated dispossessions.

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“…In recent years, scholars have traced this governmental logic in a large array of more contemporary political practices, including the processing of flight passengers (Adey, 2009), the management of infrastructural flows (Luque-Ayala and Marvin, 2016) or the activities of emergency services (O'Grady, 2014). Most important for our purpose, it has been demonstrated that territorial strategies, far from being opposed to liberal rationalities of governing, can become implicated in fashioning circulatory regimes (Brighenti, 2014a;Opitz and Tellmann, 2012;Opitz, 2016). Territories constitute 'places of passage' (Deleuze and Guattari, 1987: 323).…”

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Capturing protest in urban environments: The ‘police kettle’ as a territorial strategy

2019

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Kettling has emerged in recent decades as an established, if controversial, tactic of public order policing. Departing from a historical emphasis on dispersal, kettling instead acts to contain protesters within a police cordon for sustained periods of time. In this article, we seek to elaborate upon the spatial and temporal logics of kettling by investigating the conditions of is historical emergence. We argue that 'kettling' has to be understood as a territorial strategy that co-evolved in relation to new forms of disruptive protest. Whereas older techniques of crowd dispersal serve to diffuse a unified collective, 'kettling' aims at capturing the highly volatile and 'swarming' movements characteristic of contemporary choreographies of dissent. Drawing on police manuals, media coverage, accounts from activists and expert interviews, we show how the 'kettle' re-territorializes protest by acting on its spatio-temporal and affective constitution. By fabricating an inner outside of the urban milieu, freezing the time of collective mobilization and inducing debilitating affects such as fear and boredom kettling intervenes into the scene of political subjectification that each congregation of protesting bodies seeks to fashion.

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Global territories: zones of economic and legal dis/connectivity

Cited by 43 publications

References 53 publications

Mobilising security and logistics through an African port: A controversies approach to infrastructure

Mobilising security and logistics through an African port: A controversies approach to infrastructure

Overlapping zones of exclusion: carbon markets, corporate hydropower enclaves and timber extraction in Cambodia

Capturing protest in urban environments: The ‘police kettle’ as a territorial strategy

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