Geographies of storage

• Main Author: RANDLE, Sayd
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: global warming; natural resources; political economy; resources; sustainability; transport; Environmental Studies; Geography
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/146; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1145/viewcontent/GeographiesStorage_sv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Resource storage has long played a key role in the production of socio-ecological arrangements and economic relations. Even so, storage as a concept has remained somewhat marginal within geographical scholarship, often obscured by an analytical focus on the dynamics of movement. Reviewing recent works from geography, science and technology studies, and anthropology that center sites and practices of storage, this essay elaborates the diverse ways in which storage arrangements mediate resource circulation and the production of space. This literature demonstrates that thinking systematically with storage can illuminate a range of novel temporal, material, and value entanglements in-the-making, pointing to potentially fruitful avenues for future research.