CRG Book Launches 13
The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean.
Jeroen Adam ( CRG) in Conversation with Timothy Raeymaekers ( University of Bologna)
When: October 18, 2024 (Fri)
Time:11:00 – 12:30
Where: Room John Vincke (3rd floor), Technicum 1, Campus UFO, Ghent University
ABOUT THE BOOK:
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.
Author:
Timothy Raeymaekers is a Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Cultures at the University of Bologna, and an Affiliated Researcher in the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His research delves into the complex geographies of agri-food and precious resource markets in the context of global supply chain capitalism.
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