Although logistics are fundamentally geographical and of critical importance to contemporary society, it is only relatively recently that human geographers and cognate social scientists have started to meaningfully engage with the topic. This paper explores this recent growth of interest, which encompasses the work of transport geographers, economic geographers, labour geographers, mobilities scholars and critical logistics scholars. It synthesises, reviews and evaluates this research around four themes: logistics, cities and regional development; logistics and global production networks; logistics labour; and infrastructure, power and violence. These themes are presented in the loose order in which they have emerged in the literature; while these topics have originated in particular sub‐disciplines, important conversations are now starting to emerge between different kinds of scholars both within and across these themes. These conversations have also increasingly connected geographers into vibrant interdisciplinary debates involving researchers from political science, sociology, anthropology, labour studies, and architecture and planning, among others.

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物流地理

尽管物流从根本上来说是地理上的，并且对当代社会至关重要，但是直到最近，人类地理学家和相关的社会科学家才开始有意义地参与这一话题。本文探讨了最近这种兴趣的增长，其中包括运输地理学家，经济地理学家，劳动地理学家，交通学者和重要物流学者的工作。它围绕四个主题对本研究进行了综合，回顾和评估：物流，城市和区域发展。物流和全球生产网络；后勤劳工；基础设施，权力和暴力。这些主题以它们在文献中出现的松散顺序呈现。这些主题起源于特定的子学科，在这些主题之内和之间，不同类型的学者之间开始出现重要的对话。这些对话也越来越多地将地理学家与活跃的跨学科辩论联系起来，涉及政治学，社会学，人类学，劳动研究，建筑和规划等领域的研究人员。