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Violent capitalism and political power on the Congo-Uganda border
\"This book discusses the radical transformation of eastern Congo's political order in the context of apparent armed destruction and state weakness. Looking beyond the dominant paradigms, the author critically assesses the premises of this region's presumed collapse into chaos. He traces violent rule patterns back to a tumultuous history of extra-economic accumulation, armed rebellion and de facto public authority in the margins of regional power plays. Rather than curing the world's ills, the originality of this book lies in its neat focus on cultural and economic uncertainty. It answers the question of what institutional changes are the result of strategies of daily risk management in an environment characterised by violent competition over the right to govern\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Natural Border
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.
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The natural border : bounding migrant farmwork in the Black Mediterranean
\"The Natural Border tells the recent history of Mediterranean rural capitalism from the perspective of marginalized Black African farmworkers. In the context of global supply chains and repressive border regimes, the book foregrounds the fundamental racial hierarchies upon which agrarian production and reproduction are based\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Violence on the margins : states, conflict, and borderlands
This survey of various African and Asian conflicts examines people's experiences on territorial borders and the ways they affect political configurations. By focusing on individuals' routines and daily life, these contributions treat borderland dynamics as actual political units with their own actions and outcomes.
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IMPERMANENT TERRITORIES
The previous chapter sought to analyze the regional government of Basilicata’s frenetic attempts to tie migrant labor to the land while at the same time excluding workers from rural society. This chapter takes a complementary look into migrant ghettos as emerging rural infrastructures. As I have tried to make clear, such infrastructures are an essential component of the agrarian economy of cash crop production in the Italian South but are also deliberately excluded from the formal social, political, and economic sphere. Thus, while migrant ghettos continue to be regarded in contemporary development planning as “shameful” places that need sanitation and
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CITIZEN RECOGNITION
This chapter concerns the citizenship rights of Black African workers in Southern Italy in the context of the deep geopolitical, social, ecological, and economic transformation the Mediterranean region has been going through in the period 2014–2020. The high reliance of agricultural firms (both seasonal and nonseasonal) on migrant laborers has generated a demographic shift across the rural spaces of the Mezzogiorno and the Sahel. In Southern Italy in particular, the social cost of globalized agri-food production appears to have fallen increasingly on the shoulders of geographically and culturally segregated rural communities, which include migrants in the ghettos, as well
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TERRITORIALIZING LABOR
As I said previously, I consider migrant agricultural labor not merely as the end-product of a process of commodification, in the classic Marxian sense. I am interested instead in the processes of sociospatial differentiation and stratification that end up producing what can be regarded as the fundamental boundary that upholds the predicament of formal industrial development, which is the distinction between the formal, “free” wage laborer and the racialized and informal “unfree” worker. Following Orlando Patterson’s argument that in order to understand unfreedom, one must analyze the complex, tense, and at times contradictory interaction that underpins its social production and
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PLANTATION ASSEMBLAGES
This chapter focuses on the deep transformations that have characterized the social ecology of Mediterranean and sub-Saharan monocropping plantations since the late nineteenth century until today. My main geographic focus will be the growing connection between the central Mediterranean and the Sahel—two socioecological systems that have become increasingly interconnected in the last four decades. From a global perspective, the mode of production of the plantation has undergone considerable changes since it was first introduced in the Mediterranean in the premodern era. While forced slavery has been gradually replaced by different forms of labor exploitation, and the capitalist supply chains
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