REGIMES OF LOGISTICS, PAUSES IN THE FLOW, STILLNESS IN (NEAR) INDUSTRIAL NON-PLACES AND MOBILITY INFRASTRUCTURE

• Authors: Agata Stanisz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article is based on the ethnographic mobile eldwork carried out among Polish tractor unit drivers em- ployed in West European forwarding companies. It is focused on truck drivers’ mobility, whose inherent quality is the contradiction between movement and stillness, multi-sitedness and speci c localisation, and access to protected and monitored industrial zones as opposed to spatial exclusion. The starting point of the re ections are the categories of a non-place and mobility, which in practice appear to less obvious and one-dimensional in the context of trans-local and cross-border activities of tractor unit drivers. It is the stillness a phenomenon that reveals the regimes of distribution and transport logistics. 

Keywords

EN

anthropology of freight, logistics, non-places, mobile ethnography, stilness

• Publisher: AGH University of Science and Technology
• Journal: Studia Humanistyczne AGH
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 4

Dates

published

2015

online

2016-12-20

Contributors

author

Agata Stanisz

Identifiers

DOI

10.7494/human.2015.14.4.73-86