Iméra is hosting a study day for the Le Grand Entrepôt ANR project led by the Laboratoire d’Économie et de Sociologie du Travail (CNRS/amU). On the agenda: logistics and the Asian Mediterraneans.
Migration, goods, warehouse
It will be possible to follow this study day on Zoom.
- 9:15 am: Welcome coffee
- 9:30 am: Introduction to Le Grand Entrepôt by Delphine Mercier and Michel Peraldi.
- 9:45 am: Diasporic logistics, the emporiums of overseas Chinese by Emmanuel Ma Mung.
- 10:15 am: Navigating the grey areas of the Asian fish supply chain: Migrant seafarers, globalised labour regimes and precariousness by Béatrice Zani.
- 10:45 am: Discussion-debate, moderated byEric Florence, Olivier Pliez and Mathieu Quet.
- 11:30 am: Coffee break.
- 11:45 am: Towards a sound ethnography of the world of transnational logistics by Emmanuelle Durand and David Lagarde.
- 12:15 pm: Discussion-debate.
- 12:30 pm: Lunch break.
- 2:15 pm: Presentation of the ANR’s progress
Publications: special issue of Terrain magazine, LGE collection published by Editions du Croquant, LGE comic strip, publications calendar, illustrated sound postcards.
Discussion and opening up of hypotheses for future research.
About the ANR Le Grand Entrepôt project
Ce projet porte sur l’émergence de « zones franches » (Mercier, 1997, 2017) de « zones grises » industrialo commerciales (Azaïs, 2014) qui jouent désormais un rôle crucial dans l’organisation de la fonction de stockage, que certains économistes nomment « économie d’entrepôt » (Porter M., 1947 ; Gereffy G. et Korzeniewicz M., 1994). Ces zones occupent de façon privilégiée des territoires en déshérence où elles forment de véritables enclaves de non droit local. Elles sont aussi des lieux d’innovation révélateurs de véritables mutations dans les relations de travail comme sur l’organisation des marchés de l’emploi. C’est parce qu’elles articulent gestion rationnelle des stocks, flexibilité de l’emploi et multiscalarité des circuits, que ces zones sont des espaces-temps privilégiés pour comprendre les mutations en cours des économies transnationales.
This project focuses on the emergence of ‘free zones’ (Mercier, 1997, 2017) and industrial and commercial ‘grey zones’ (Azaïs, 2014), which now play a crucial role in the organisation of the storage function, which some economists refer to as the ‘warehouse economy’ (Porter M., 1947; Gereffy G. and Korzeniewicz M., 1994). These zones are particularly prevalent in areas that have fallen into disrepair, where they are veritable enclaves of local lawlessness. They are also places of innovation, revealing real changes in labour relations and in the organisation of labour markets. It is because they combine rational stock management, flexible employment and multi-scalar circuits that these zones are privileged time-spaces for understanding the changes underway in transnational economies.
