{"title":"Deborah Cowen","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeborah Cowen's works explore the intricate dynamics of global systems, focusing on how logistics shape social, political, and economic realities. Her writing delves into the often unseen networks that govern movement and control, offering a critical perspective on contemporary infrastructure and its implications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect insightful analyses that blend geography, politics, and education into a compelling narrative. Cowen’s books challenge conventional views, inviting reflection on the forces that organise our world and the complexities behind everyday processes.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-deadly-life-of-logistics-by-deborah-cowen-9780816680887","title":"The Deadly Life of Logistics","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a world in which global trade is at risk, where warehouses and airports, shipping lanes and seaports try to guard against the likes of Al Qaeda and Somali pirates, and natural disaster can disrupt the flow of goods, even our \"stuff\" has a political life. The high stakes of logistics are not surprising, Deborah Cowen reveals, if we understand its genesis in war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Deadly Life of Logistics\u003c\/em\u003e, Cowen traces the art and science of logistics over the last sixty years, from the battlefield to the boardroom and back again. Focusing on choke points such as national borders, zones of piracy, blockades, and cities, she tracks contemporary efforts to keep goods circulating and brings to light the collective violence these efforts produce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe investigates how the old military art of logistics played a critical role in the making of the global economic order—not simply the globalization of production, but the invention of the supply chain and the reorganisation of national economies into transnational systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile reshaping the world of production and distribution, logistics is also actively reconfiguring global maps of security and citizenship, a phenomenon Cowen charts through the rise of supply chain security, with its challenge to long-standing notions of state sovereignty and border management.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThough the object of corporate and governmental logistical efforts is commodity supply, \u003cem\u003eThe Deadly Life of Logistics\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates that they are deeply political—and, considered in the context of the long history of logistics, deeply indebted to the practice of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471742255340,"sku":"9780816680887","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780816680887-the-deadly-life-of-logistics.jpg?v=1775252190"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/deborah-cowen.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}