TY - JOUR
T1 - Distribution, dis-sumption and dis-appointment
T2 - The negative geographies of city logistics
AU - Mutter, Samuel
N1 - Funding Information:
I am hugely grateful to Pete Merriman for comments on an earlier version of this paper. Thanks also to the anonymous reviewers and the journal editor, for their deep critical engagement with my work. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Economic and Social Research Council (ES/W006448/1).
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PY - 2023/2/1
Y1 - 2023/2/1
N2 - Critical approaches to logistics, in dialogue with geography and related disciplines, have exposed the turbulence behind apparently seamless transnational circulations of stuff. As everyday urban life becomes increasingly structured through logistical practices and expectations which imbricate consumption and distribution, now is an appropriate moment to take stock of these dialogues. Reviewing them, the article identifies three spatial assumptions – peripheral geographies, seamless consumption, forward motion – proposing that they express an additive, forward-leaning representation of logistics. In response, it draws upon debates on ‘negativity’ to suggest geographers pay greater attention to logistics’ negative spaces (voids), affects (dis-appointments) and mobilities (reversals).
AB - Critical approaches to logistics, in dialogue with geography and related disciplines, have exposed the turbulence behind apparently seamless transnational circulations of stuff. As everyday urban life becomes increasingly structured through logistical practices and expectations which imbricate consumption and distribution, now is an appropriate moment to take stock of these dialogues. Reviewing them, the article identifies three spatial assumptions – peripheral geographies, seamless consumption, forward motion – proposing that they express an additive, forward-leaning representation of logistics. In response, it draws upon debates on ‘negativity’ to suggest geographers pay greater attention to logistics’ negative spaces (voids), affects (dis-appointments) and mobilities (reversals).
KW - affect
KW - city logistics
KW - dis-sumption
KW - everyday life
KW - mobilities
KW - negative geographies
KW - platform urbanism
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U2 - 10.1177/03091325221132563
DO - 10.1177/03091325221132563
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85140027192
SN - 0309-1325
VL - 47
SP - 160
EP - 177
JO - Progress in Human Geography
JF - Progress in Human Geography
IS - 1
ER -