Translating the Indifference of Communication: Electronic Waste, Migrant Labour and the Informational Sovereignty of Logistics in China

Authors

  • Ned Rossiter

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/irie184

Abstract

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.

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Published

2009-10-01

How to Cite

Rossiter, Ned. 2009. “Translating the Indifference of Communication: Electronic Waste, Migrant Labour and the Informational Sovereignty of Logistics in China”. The International Review of Information Ethics 11 (October). Edmonton, Canada:36-44. https://doi.org/10.29173/irie184.

Issue

Vol. 11 (2009): Ethics of E-Waste

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Article

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