Driven by the momentous political and economic changes of the past decade and by the resurgence of popular resistance against globalization, the question of global supply chains has come back with a vengeance. This special issue takes this liminal space where supply chains lose many of their familiar trappings as its focus, exploring the unchartered territory of the politics of logistics in the zones at the margins of supply chain capitalism - mediocre ports, mountainous borderlands, and arid zones - logistical spaces where, to speak with James [43]: 11), distance-demolishing technologies hold little sway. Supply chain capitalism is often equated with a retreat of, or agency beyond the, state; delving into the nuts and bolts of the Chilean copper industry, their article shows instead how neoliberalization was very much a state project - one devoted to undercutting labor struggles in order for a main export product to remain competitive under conditions of value depreciation. Whereas supply chain capitalists and their state sponsors will sanction such forms as "subversive", it is to be remembered that they at once form the typical way through which supply chains come to life the world across, and that informal logistical labor in one place is so often the human infrastructure out of which corporate profits elsewhere are wrought - with global supply chains as the machinery to produce this perverse combination of profit concentration and the maintenance of precariousness (cf. [Extracted from the article]