"For decades, privately owned detention centers along borders have made money by confining millions of migrants, then timing their release into low-paid jobs controlled by shadowy ecosystems of agencies." -- Susan Zieger, PhD #logisticsandpower
"Sometimes logistical power betrays its alliance to the state, by moving illicit goods, people, and information without its approval, creating lucrative markets and accumulating even more wealth." -- Susan Zieger, PhD #logisticsandpower
"Capitalism and militarism are the two forces capable of moving goods, people, and information at tremendous scale, speed and precision." -- Susan Zieger, PhD. #logisticsandpower
“I am offering something more valuable: a view of logistical power that is rooted in history, connected to the present, and aimed at improving the life of human communities and environments.” — Susan Zieger, PhD
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“The flow of goods, people, and information along supply chains and the logistics that manages it are subtly altering ways of being human.” — Susan Zieger, PhD #LogisticsandPower #UCPress
How we arrived at our everyday lives in a supply chain world. #LogisticsandPower
“And across demographics, women traditionally supply, coordinate, and manage households and communities as unpaid logisticians.”
—Susan Zieger, PhD #LogisticsandPower
“When traditionally advantaged people find it harder to bounce back from adversity or pay their way out, “logistics” gets real for them.”
—Susan Zieger,PhD #LogisticsandPower
“Much research and writing has examined the stresses of modernity, but very little has studied their logistical nature.” - Susan Zieger,PhD #LogisticsandPower