Date: 28 April 2025
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Biblioteket, Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus
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Why should we care about logistics? How do we connect struggles around labour and land to the operating of logistical systems across the globe? Including the forms of violence they enable and the futures they point to? These social and infrastructural configurations unfold across issues near and far: a just and inhabitable Sweden, a healthy and decent workplace, the expansion of repressive security laws in Europe, and the possibilities of supply chain activism vis-a-vis ongoing military conflicts and genocide in Gaza. They urge us to explore the connections between, cross-border organising and solidarity networks, Amazon warehouses, municipal and corporate land usage, app-based goods and services, port and border security, data centres and digital infrastructure. How can we learn from existing international efforts to begin organising toward more just futures today? How can efforts to map, visualize, or otherwise collaborate around these issues shift public perceptions?
A public conversation involving numerous special guests: workers and representatives from the unions S.I.Cobas (Italy) and OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza (Poland), the Jordan-based Palestinian research collective Bahaleen, as well as artists and researchers from Italy, Belgium, US, Sweden and Norway. The conversation is organised by two ongoing projects: the artistic research project Ghost Platform: Generating the “Complex Image” of Data, Labour, and Logistics, and the ethnographic research project Unpacking the Logistics Town: how local communities are reshaped in the wake of Amazon’s European warehouse expansion.
With the funding support of: Vetenskapsrådet, FORMAS, & Nordisk Kultur Fond
