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Flattening the Map: How Human Movement is Turned Into a Logistical Problem; the Cases of Asylum and Humanitarian Relief

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dc.contributor.editorBareikytė, Miglė
dc.contributor.editorBee, Julia
dc.creatorPfeifer, Michelle
dc.creatorWard, Patricia
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-05T09:06:50Z
dc.date.available2024-12-05T09:06:50Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractWhy is human movement increasingly conceived of as a logistical problem? Global forms of human movement have been occurring for centuries, but popular dis- course and policies often construct contemporary human movement as excep- tional: an unprecedented global problem that requires new techniques of management and logistics. Scholarship situates logistics as a site that articulates social relations of power and differentiates human worth. In this paper, we ask how human movement becomes transformed into a logistical matter in the first place. Following calls within critical logistics scholarship to not just follow contain- ers but also techniques like containment, this paper considers mapping techniques that transform human movement into problems viewed through a logistical lens. We explore these mapping techniques in the context of transnational humanitari- an response operations and EU asylum procedures. We find that mapping tech- niques visibly construct humans on the move as issues of circulation and distribu- tion: a logistical framing which invisibilizes the figure(s) of the human(s) situated in these circulations and distributions. At the same time, we find that mapping tech- niques both make and unmake human movement because mapping imbues (and is imbued with) ambivalent, ever-changing directional and hierarchical assumptions and logics related to the configuration and organization of social relations. We ar- gue that it is this very differentiation of humanity that logistification – through techniques of mapping – produces and enacts: the value and attention to certain human lives versus others based on logistics.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23312
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/25096
dc.languageeng
dc.publisheruniversi – Universitätsverlag Siegen
dc.publisher.placeSiegen
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:1619-1641
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNavigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectMovementen
dc.subjectLogisticsen
dc.subjectAsylumen
dc.subject.ddcddc:302.23
dc.titleFlattening the Map: How Human Movement is Turned Into a Logistical Problem; the Cases of Asylum and Humanitarian Reliefen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticle
local.coverpage2024-12-06T02:42:11
local.source.epage99
local.source.issue2
local.source.spage81
local.source.volume24

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