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Capital’s logistical fix: Accumulation, globalization, and the survival of capitalism

Danyluk, Martin

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Martin Danyluk



Abstract

The growth and transformation of logistics have been attributed to a specific confluence of forces that compelled firms to turn their attention to the circulation of commodities in the second half of the 20th century. This article seeks to develop a more theoretically informed account of the logistics revolution by delineating the industry’s role in promoting the accumulation of capital and the reproduction of capitalism. Drawing on Marxian geographical thought, I contend that the logistical turn of the past five decades has facilitated a multifaceted “spatial fix” to capitalism’s chronic problem of overaccumulation—one that has reconfigured the geographies of circulation as well as production, consumption, and appropriation. This argument has important implications for our understanding of globalization. By enhancing the mobility of both commodity capital and the production process itself, advances in logistics have been an essential, albeit neglected, condition of global economic integration since the 1970s.

Citation

Danyluk, M. (2018). Capital’s logistical fix: Accumulation, globalization, and the survival of capitalism. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 36(4), 630-647. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775817703663

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 14, 2017
Online Publication Date Apr 9, 2017
Publication Date Aug 1, 2018
Deposit Date Jan 18, 2019
Publicly Available Date Jan 21, 2019
Journal Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Print ISSN 0263-7758
Electronic ISSN 1472-3433
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 36
Issue 4
Pages 630-647
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775817703663
Keywords Logistics, supply chains, spatial fix, circulation, economic globalization, crisis
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1482519
Publisher URL https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0263775817703663

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