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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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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 Real Life of the Parthenon
Ownership battles over the marbles removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin have been rumbling into invective, pleading, and counterclaims for two centuries.The emotional temperature around them is high, and steering across the vast past to safe anchor in a brilliant heritage is tricky. The stories around antiquities become distorted by the pull.
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Raccomandazione
The issue of patronage-clientelism has long been of interest in the social sciences. Based on long-term ethnographic research in southern Italy, this book examines the concept and practice of raccomandazione: the omnipresent social institution of using connections to get things done. Viewing the practice both from an indigenous perspective - as a morally ambivalent social fact - and considering it in light of the power relations that position southern Italy within the nesting relations of global Norths and Souths, it builds on and extends past scholarship to consider the nature of patronage in a contemporary society and its relationship to corruption.
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Before the Normans
Histories of medieval Europe have typically ignored southern Italy, looking south only in the Norman period. Yet Southern Italy in the ninth and tenth centuries was a complex and vibrant world that deserves to be better understood. In Before the Normans, Barbara M. Kreutz writes the first modern study in English of the land, political structures, and cultures of southern Italy in the two centuries before the Norman conquests. This was a pan-Meditteranean society, where the Roman past and Lombard-Germanic culture met Byzantine and Islamic civilization, creating a rich and unusual mix.
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Civil war and agrarian unrest : the Confederate South and southern Italy
\"Between 1861 and 1865, both the Confederate South and Southern Italy underwent dramatic processes of nation-building, with the creation of the Confederate States of America and the Kingdom of Italy, in the midst of civil wars. This is the first book that compares these parallel developments by focusing on the Unionist and pro-Bourbon political forces that opposed the two new nations in inner civil conflicts. Overlapping these conflicts were the social revolutions triggered by the rebellions of American slaves and Southern Italian peasants against the slaveholding and landowning elites. Utilizing a comparative perspective, Enrico Dal Lago sheds light on the reasons why these combined factors of internal opposition proved fatal for the Confederacy in the American Civil War, while the Italian Kingdom survived its own civil war. At the heart of this comparison is a desire to understand how and why nineteenth-century nations rose and either endured or disappeared\"-- Provided by publisher.
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