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The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade by Cowen, Deborah

“…In 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…”
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Law as Infrastructure of Colonial Space: Sketches from Turtle Island by Cowen, Deborah

“…Heraclitus's words remind us that law and infrastructure have lived in intimate relation, in practice and thought, for millennia. This intimacy is palpable in…”
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Following the infrastructures of empire: notes on cities, settler colonialism, and method by Cowen, Deborah

“…This paper investigates urban life through the contested formation of settler colonial infrastructure. Trespassing nationalist narratives, it 'follows the…”
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Factors Influencing the Specificity of Inhibitor Binding to the Human and Malaria Parasite Dihydroorotate Dehydrogenases by Bedingfield, Paul T. P, Cowen, Deborah, Acklam, Paul, Cunningham, Fraser, Parsons, Mark R, McConkey, Glenn A, Fishwick, Colin W. G, Johnson, A. Peter

“…The de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis enzyme dihydroorotate dehydrogenase is an emerging drug target for the treatment of malaria. In this context a key property…”
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Fighting for "Freedom": The End of Conscription in the United States and the Neoliberal Project of Citizenship by Cowen, Deborah E.

“…This paper investigates the termination of conscription in the United States as a neoliberal project to reconstruct national citizenship. It examines how…”
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A Geography of Logistics: Market Authority and the Security of Supply Chains by Cowen, Deborah

“…In recent years, U.S. military and civilian agencies have been rethinking security in the context of globalized production and trade. No longer lodged in a…”
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Introduction: Turbulent Circulation: Building a Critical Engagement with Logistics by Chua, Charmaine, Danyluk, Martin, Cowen, Deborah, Khalili, Laleh

“…Since the mid-20th century, logistics has evolved into a wide-ranging science of circulation involved in planning and managing flows of innumerable kinds. In…”
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Cartographies of empire, and beyond: the logistics of life and death by Cowen, Deborah

“…Cowen elaborates on questions of materiality, circulation, and empire to make some of the conceptual infrastructure of The Deadly Life of Logistics more…”
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Surplus Masculinities and Security by Cowen, Deborah, Siciliano, Amy

“…:  In this paper we investigate geographies of military recruitment and urban policing as key domains for both the management of surplus populations and the…”
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After Geopolitics? From the Geopolitical Social to Geoeconomics by Cowen, Deborah, Smith, Neil

“…:  This paper makes two central arguments. First, the popular language of geopolitics needs to be understood as historically emerging from and helping create a…”
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Infrastructure, Jurisdiction, Extractivism: Keywords for decolonizing geographies by Pasternak, Shiri, Cowen, Deborah, Clifford, Robert, Joseph, Tiffany, Scott, Dayna Nadine, Spice, Anne, Stark, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik

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The Geo-Economics of Piracy: The “Somali Pirate” and the Remaking of International Law by Cowen, Deborah

“…The diagram in Figure 25 marks the constitution of a new space: the International Recommended Transit Corridor (IRTC). This space cannot be seen on the open…”
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The Labor of Logistics: Just-in-Time Jobs by Cowen, Deborah

“…Figure 21 offers a conceptual map of the application process for a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC). The TWIC is a pivotal element of the…”
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The Revolution in Logistics: America’s Last Dark Continent by Cowen, Deborah

“…The simple little diagram shown in Figure 3 changed the world. With its childlike simplicity of rectangles and relationships, this 1970 representation of an…”
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CONCLUSION: Rough Trade? Sex, Death, and the Queer Nature of Circulation by Cowen, Deborah

“…Figure 35 captures one moment in the extraordinary migration of the pronghorn antelope. Taking the longest trek of any land mammal in the United States, their…”
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Logistics Cities: The “Urban Heart” of Empire by Cowen, Deborah

“…The illustration in Figure 26 is one in a series of designs for the dramatic transformation of a place that became globally notorious in the early years of the…”
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INTRODUCTION: The Citizenship of Stuff in the Global Social Factory by Cowen, Deborah

“…Sneakers may still be easier to order online than smart bombs, but the industry that brings us both is making it increasingly difficult to discern the art of…”
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From National Borders to Global Seams: The Rise of Supply Chain Security by Cowen, Deborah

“…The diagram in Figure 10 appeared as part of a 2006New York Timesarticle on the growing challenge of securing global supply chains (Fattah and Lipton 2006)…”
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Dead Malls: Suburban Activism, Local Spaces, Global Logistics by PARLETTE, VANESSA, COWEN, DEBORAH

“…An entire category of urban space, albeit hardly recognized as such, is disappearing across North America. As retail logistics globalizes and big‐box power…”
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Reading Deborah Cowen's The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade by Mann, Geoff, Chua, Charmaine, Kanngieser, Anja, Labban, Mazen, Cowen, Deborah

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