The publication of Transit Labour #2, a booklet collecting texts and images produced around the Shanghai research platform, June-July 2010 in which I took part, is out. The booklet is available as a pdf. Download here. There are also a limited number of hardcopies available. If you would like to get one, write to: info@transitlabour.asia.
Transit Labour #2
When jurisdiction can no longer be aligned with territory and governance does not necessarily assume liberalism, there is a need to rethink the relations between labour, mobility and space. Bringing together researchers from different parts of the world to discuss and pursue various paths of investigation and collaboration, the Shanghai Transit Labour Research Platform moved between online and offline worlds. Sometimes sequestered in seminar spaces and at other times negotiating the city and the regulatory environment, the participants drifted toward a collective enunciation. We could say this was about the production of new kinds of labouring subjectivities that build connections between domains which are at once becoming more irreconcilable and more indistinct: life and work, public and private, political and economic, natural and cultural.
Editors: Kernow Craig, Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter, Soenke Zehle
Proof reading: Anja Kanngieser
Design: Kernow Craig
Printing: Blood & Thunder Publishing Concern, Sydney
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Contents
Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter & Soenke Zehle, From Flows of Culture to the Circuits of Logistics: Borders, Regions, Labour in Transit
Stefano Harney, From Statistical to Logistical Populations
Shveta Sarda, Baoshan Electronics Market
Anja Kanngieser and Manuela Zechner, Future Functions: Aspiration, Desire and Futures
Chen Hangfeng, My Trip to Santa’s Workshop
Paul Gladston, Locating Displacement: Envisioning the Complex ‘Diasporization’ of Contemporary Chinese Art
Justin O’Connor & Gu Xin, Shanghai: City of Other People’s Dreams
Mauricio Corbalan & Soenke Zehle, Monitoring Particles and Populations: Expo-Urbanism and the Rise of Eco-Governance Regimes
Tim Winter, Shanghai Expo: Seeing the World in Small
Geert Lovink, Shanghai’s State of the Creative Arts: At the Opening of the Rockbund Museum
Brett Neilson, Guijing Migrant Village
Sandro Mezzadra, Between Centre and Periphery
Anna Greenspan, On the City’s Edge
Images: Chen Hangfeng, Angela Melitopoulos, Tim Winter and Anna Greenspan.