The Natural Border

Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean

Timothy Raeymaekers (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2024
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-7364-8 (ISBN)

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The Natural Border tells the recent history of Mediterranean rural capitalism from the perspective of marginalized Black African farm workers. Timothy Raeymaekers shows how in the context of global supply chains and repressive border regimes, agrarian production and reproduction are based on fundamental racial hierarchies.

Taking the example of the tomato—a typical 'Made in Italy' commodity—Raeymaekers asks how political boundaries are drawn around the land and the labor needed for its production, what technologies of exclusion and inclusion enable capitalist operations to take place in the Mediterranean agrarian frontier, and which practices structure the allocation, use and commodification of land and labor across the tomato chain. While the mobile infrastructures that mobilize, channel, commodify and segregate labor play a central role in the 'naturalization' of racial segregation, they are also terrains of contestation and power—and thus, as The Natural Border demonstrates, reflect the tense socio-ecological transformation the Mediterranean border space is going through today.

Timothy Raeymaekers is Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Cultures at the University of Bologna, and Affiliated Researcher in the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Introduction

1. Commodity Frontiers

2. Plantation Assemblages

3. Territorializing Labor

4. Impermanent Territories

5. Citizen Recognition

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	17.01.2024
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5017-7364-X / 150177364X
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-7364-8 / 9781501773648
Zustand	Neuware