Vortrag „Reading the Mediterranean Border through Racial Capitalism“

In this talk, Timothy Raeymaekers will present his monograph The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean (Cornell 2024). Telling the recent history of Mediterranean agri-food capitalism from the perspective of marginalized Black African farm workers, the book argues that, 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— the book furthermore interrogates 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, and which practices structure the allocation, use and commodification of land and labor across global commodity chains – thus offering a new conceptualization of territorial boundaries from a critical political ecology and environmental justice perspective.

Zusammenfassung:

Mittwoch, 15. Januar 2025, 11.00 Uhr - 13.00 Uhr
„Reading the Mediterranean Border through Racial Capitalism“
Vortrag

mit: Prof. Dr. Timothy Raeymaekers (University of Bologna)
Englischsprachiger Vortrag anlässlich der Veranstaltungsreihe „Research Factory“ organisiert vom Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION. Bitte melden Sie sich für die Veranstaltung an.
Ort: online
Anmeldung
Mehr Informationen zur Research Factory



Zur Gesamtübersicht der öffentlichen Veranstaltungen