Translating the indifference of communication : electronic waste, migrant labour and the informational sovereignty of logistics in China

Ned Rossiter

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Translating the indifference of communication : electronic waste, migrant labour and the informational sovereignty of logistics in China

Ned Rossiter

Institute for Culture & Society

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This essay is interested in the relationship between electronic waste and emergent regimes of labour control operative within the global logistics industry, the task of which is to manage the movement of people and things in the interests of communication, transport and economic efficiencies. It considers the production of non-governable subjects and (regional) spaces as they figure in the relation between electronic waste, global logistics industries and biopolitical technologies of labour control.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	36-44
Number of pages	9
Journal	International Review of Information Ethics
Volume	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.29173/irie184
Publication status	Published - 2009

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electronic waste
logistics

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Translating the indifference of communication : electronic waste, migrant labour and the informational sovereignty of logistics in China

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