The Logistics-Technology Hub
A Reinterpretation of Latin American Structuralism from the Perspective of Digital Port Sovereignty
Keywords:
enclave, structuralism, digital sovereignty, ports, Latin AmericaAbstract
This article formulates the analytical category of the logistic-technological enclave as a reactualisation of Latin American structuralist thought. Against the classical modalities of the enclave (mining, agro-export, energy), in the logistic-digital cycle asymmetric capture shifts towards the infocommunicational and algorithmic substrate of global supply chains. The category is defined by three observable properties: regulatory invisibility, asymmetric reversibility and capture through technical opacity. The argument is sustained through a comparative reading of the European Union Port Strategy, an instrument that explicitly treats the digital port layer as public sovereignty, and of Latin American concession frameworks that transfer it contractually without recognising it as such. The theoretical contribution consists in providing a conceptual tool for interpreting contemporary technological dependence without dissolving it into metaphor and with operational criteria for subsequent empirical research.
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