{"product_id":"the-natural-border-timothy-raeymaekers-9781501773648","title":"The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Natural Border\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e tells the recent history of Mediterranean rural capitalism from the perspective of marginalized Black African farm workers.\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Natural Border\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates, reflect the tense socio-ecological transformation the Mediterranean border space is going through today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Timothy Raeymaekers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 150177364X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501773648\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Timothy Raeymaekers","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44449889353983,"sku":"9781501773648","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2a7e379c-6847-4329-9ca0-aca7c0083d5d.jpg?v=1698501595","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-natural-border-timothy-raeymaekers-9781501773648","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}