Logistical Worlds » Blog https://logisticalworlds.org Infrastructure, Software, Labour Wed, 01 Jun 2022 12:19:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.29 More from Less https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/more-from-less-brett-neilson-and-ned-rossiter https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/more-from-less-brett-neilson-and-ned-rossiter#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2021 06:35:38 +0000 http://logisticalworlds.org/?p=498 Brett Neilson and Ned Rossiter Known in Chile as los hombres verdes, the green men of Ventanas are former copper smelter workers whose skin is scarred with green lesions produced by chemical reactions. Located some sixty kilometres north of the port of Valparaíso, Ventanas has been declared una zona de sacrificio due to pollution from […]

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]]> https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/more-from-less-brett-neilson-and-ned-rossiter/feed 0 The Ruin, the Jewel and the Chain https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/the-ruin-the-jewel-and-the-chain https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/the-ruin-the-jewel-and-the-chain#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2021 06:33:43 +0000 http://logisticalworlds.org/?p=603 Alejandro Donaire Palma Strangled by Ruins When I was a boy in early 1990s, Valparaíso was a ruined landscape. The earthquake of 1985 damaged the city’s infrastructure, including a significant part of the port terminals, whose operational rehabilitation took from 1990 to 1999. During those years cargo trucks were forced to cross the main urban […]

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]]> https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/the-ruin-the-jewel-and-the-chain/feed 0 The Port is a Debate https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/the-port-is-a-debate https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/the-port-is-a-debate#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2021 06:32:38 +0000 http://logisticalworlds.org/?p=568 Jorge Budrovich  Impressions of Valparaíso, Alimapu, El Puerto In presenting an initial portrait of the port city of Valparaíso, of its contrasts and contradictions, I think it is relevant to recall the life and verses of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda who, like many others, inhabited this city with creative passion. A lover of travel, of […]

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]]> https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/the-port-is-a-debate/feed 0 Somatheque of the Port of Ventanas: Cartography, Maps and Counter-Representations https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/somatheque-of-the-port-of-ventanas-cartography-maps-and-counter-representations-2 https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/somatheque-of-the-port-of-ventanas-cartography-maps-and-counter-representations-2#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2021 06:26:42 +0000 http://logisticalworlds.org/?p=559 José Llano Loyola and Paulina E. Varas At first sight, the port of Ventanas, located 60 kilometres north of Valparaíso, and the surrounding town seem to be places affected by catastrophe. If this impression is indeed factually the case, is important to understand the different levels of complexity of this devastating condition, considering that communication […]

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]]> https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/somatheque-of-the-port-of-ventanas-cartography-maps-and-counter-representations-2/feed 0 Líneas de producción y emergencias medioambientales / Production lines and environmental emergencies https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/lineas-de-produccion-y-emergencias-medioambientales-production-lines-and-environmental-emergencies https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/lineas-de-produccion-y-emergencias-medioambientales-production-lines-and-environmental-emergencies#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2021 06:25:28 +0000 http://logisticalworlds.org/?p=637 José Llano Loyola and Paulina E. Varas

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]]> https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/lineas-de-produccion-y-emergencias-medioambientales-production-lines-and-environmental-emergencies/feed 0 Mapa de poder y sistemas de trabajo/ Power map and work systems https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/mapa-de-poder-y-sistemas-de-trabajo-power-map-and-work-systems https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/mapa-de-poder-y-sistemas-de-trabajo-power-map-and-work-systems#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2021 06:24:59 +0000 http://logisticalworlds.org/?p=635 José Llano Loyola and Paulina E. Varas

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]]> https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/mapa-de-poder-y-sistemas-de-trabajo-power-map-and-work-systems/feed 0 Somateca Linea Tiempo https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/somateca-linea-tiempo https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/somateca-linea-tiempo#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2021 06:24:30 +0000 http://logisticalworlds.org/?p=665 José Llano Loyola and Paulina E. Varas

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]]> https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/somateca-linea-tiempo/feed 0 Ventana Contaminacion Personas en Chile https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/ventana-contaminacion-personas-en-chile https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/ventana-contaminacion-personas-en-chile#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2021 06:24:19 +0000 http://logisticalworlds.org/?p=654 José Llano Loyola and Paulina E. Varas

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]]> https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/ventana-contaminacion-personas-en-chile/feed 0 La Nombrada: Union Power Structure and Labour Regimes in the Port of Valparaíso https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/la-nombrada-union-power-structure-and-labour-regimes-in-the-port-of-valparaiso https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/la-nombrada-union-power-structure-and-labour-regimes-in-the-port-of-valparaiso#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2021 06:23:28 +0000 http://logisticalworlds.org/?p=571 Hernán Cuevas Valenzuela, Valentina Leal and Lucas Cifuentes Fluctuations in ship movement and changing weather conditions produce variations in the landfall of ports and thus their labour needs. As a result, port activity has historically avoided establishing permanent salaried contract jobs because they would be inefficient or unsustainable for companies. Given the instability of the […]

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]]> https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/la-nombrada-union-power-structure-and-labour-regimes-in-the-port-of-valparaiso/feed 0 Infrastructure, Logistics and Competition: The Neoliberalization of the Port of Valparaíso https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/infrastructure-logistics-and-competition-the-neoliberalization-of-the-port-of-valparaiso https://logisticalworlds.org/blog/infrastructure-logistics-and-competition-the-neoliberalization-of-the-port-of-valparaiso#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2021 06:22:12 +0000 http://logisticalworlds.org/?p=592 Hernán Cuevas Valenzuela Valparaíso is a port city located in the Pacific coast of central Chile (33°S, 71°W), 116 km (72 miles) north-west from Santiago, Chile’s overcrowded capital. Valparaíso was originally named by Spanish conquerors simply as ‘the port of Santiago’, and for centuries it was only a port village. The bay was well known […]

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