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TY - JOUR
T1 - The mobilities and post-mobilities of cargo
AU - Birtchnell, Thomas
AU - Urry, John
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Cargo is moved from factories through global production networks via supply chains to consumers, but this process is hidden from them by what Raymond Williams termed the magic system of marketing and what Allan Sekula and Noël Burch call the forgotten space of containerization. This paper addresses recent concern that the mobilities paradigm has neglected two domains relevant to cargo: global production networks and global cultures of consumption. These domains are examined in relation to three key elements in this paper: distribution, consumption and marketing. In assessing moving consumption from the perspective of the mobilities paradigm, this paper recommends that the future of cargo, the ease of which consumers take utterly for granted, is far from clear-cut from a strategic foresight perspective.
AB - Cargo is moved from factories through global production networks via supply chains to consumers, but this process is hidden from them by what Raymond Williams termed the magic system of marketing and what Allan Sekula and Noël Burch call the forgotten space of containerization. This paper addresses recent concern that the mobilities paradigm has neglected two domains relevant to cargo: global production networks and global cultures of consumption. These domains are examined in relation to three key elements in this paper: distribution, consumption and marketing. In assessing moving consumption from the perspective of the mobilities paradigm, this paper recommends that the future of cargo, the ease of which consumers take utterly for granted, is far from clear-cut from a strategic foresight perspective.
KW - cargo
KW - global consumption
KW - mobilities
KW - networks
KW - supply chain
U2 - 10.1080/10253866.2014.899214
DO - 10.1080/10253866.2014.899214
M3 - Journal article
VL - 18
SP - 25
EP - 38
JO - Consumption, Markets and Culture
JF - Consumption, Markets and Culture
SN - 1025-3866
IS - 1
ER -