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AbstractThis essay explores the author's engaged research trajectory into several agro-industrial enclaves in contemporary Italy. Stemming from solidarity work in support of migrant laborers living in slums and camps, and of their demands for legal recognition and better living and work conditions, the essay shows how the interrogation of these spaces' multiple, layered pasts helps to better understand and contrast forms of containment, extraction, and racialized and gendered violence in the present. In particular, the essay pits narratives that portray such agro-industrial enclaves and the people that inhabit them as anachronistic residues against deep genealogies of racial capitalism and of the rhetorical tropes that sustained them. Carceral-like containment and, more generally, spatial segregation are shown to run through and thus be foundational in the history of capitalist agriculture, across geographies that link Italy to global flows.

The pandemic brought migrant farm workers into the limelight once again, as has happened repeatedly in the last three decades, in Italy as in many other parts of the world. Here I examine how intersecting and sometimes conflicting discourses and interventions, that have this biopolitically conceived population as their object, decide upon these subjects' worthiness of attention, care, and sympathy through criminalizing, victimizing, and humanitarian registers. I reflect on some of the affective dynamics that sustain both the governmental operations through which these populations were (sought to be) managed and reactions against them from a situated perspective, as an accomplice to many of the forms of struggle in which migrant farm workers have engaged in the last decade in Italy. The stage for many such occurrences is what I have elsewhere defined as the "encampment archipelago" that many such workers, and particularly those who migrate from across West Africa, inhabit—labor or asylum-seeker camps, but also slums or isolated, derelict buildings, and various hybrid, in-between spaces among which people circulate. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

The pandemic brought migrant farm workers into the limelight once again, as has happened repeatedly in the last three decades, in Italy as in many other parts of the world. Here I examine how intersecting and sometimes conflicting discourses and interventions, that have this biopolitically conceived population as their object, decide upon these subjects' worthiness of attention, care, and sympathy through criminalizing, victimizing, and humanitarian registers. I reflect on some of the affective dynamics that sustain both the governmental operations through which these populations were (sought to be) managed and reactions against them from a situated perspective, as an accomplice to many of the forms of struggle in which migrant farm workers have engaged in the last decade in Italy. The stage for many such occurrences is what I have elsewhere defined as the "encampment archipelago" that many such workers, and particularly those who migrate from across West Africa, inhabit—labor or asylum-seeker camps, but also slums or isolated, derelict buildings, and various hybrid, in-between spaces among which people circulate.

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The paper puts the food regime model, as elaborated by scholars such as Harriet Friedmann and Philip McMichael, into articulation with the analysis of migration/border regimes, as proposed by critical migration scholars. If by now it is well established that the policies that regulate the mobility of migrant labour play a crucial role in enabling capitalist accumulation in contemporary global agriculture, few analyses have delved into the actual mechanisms which make this possible, and into their histories. The argument is developed by reference to the Italian case, showing how subsequent waves of substitution of Italian labourers with migrants, that began in the 1980s, have followed different patterns. It argues that these can be understood by reading them against the grain of the changes accruing in the transnational migration regime. Thus, precarisation and segmentation of the labour force in the farming sector are shown to have been actively fostered by policies which have made of undocumented or differentially included labour one of the pillars upon which globally integrated food production has relied for the past three decades. Whilst based on national-scale statistics and secondary literature, the analysis also builds upon a sustained presence and engaged participant research in some of the Italian agroindustrial enclaves that record the highest presence of migrant labour.

Marilyn Strathern's body of work is here analysed in its 'partial connections' to queer thinking, from an inescapably political dimension. The chapter engages in a work of reassemblage, making Strathern's reflections compatible with those of Judith Butler and therefore also pointing to, and working through, their incomparabilities and limits. It is an exercise in cyborg-making, which draws on Strathern's engagement with the work of Donna Haraway, operated by assembling two of Strathern's terrains of inquiry in dialogue to queer thinking: institutional and disciplinary practices, on the one hand, and the awkward relations between feminist/Marxist theories and anthropological description, on the other. Here, issues of transgression and its aporias, and the necessarily relational character of identification, are interrogated for how they can guide the development of an insurgent mode of knowledge production which is founded on risk, vulnerability and the conscious search for a future that is already present in abject form. This, it is argued, cannot but mean dealing with politics in the ruins of university disciplines and institutions. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Το άρθρο εξετάζει την αλληλεπίδραση πολλαπλών καθεστώτων<br />υποκειμενοποίησης που σχετίζονται με τον εκτοπισμό και τον εντοπισμό, όπως αυτά επενεργούν στις εμπειρίες ζωής Νιγηριανών μεταναστριών εργατριών του σεξ. Το κείμενο διερευνά επίσης τους τρόπους με τους οποίους οι υποκειμενικότητες των γυναικών αυτών ενδέχεται<br />να υπερβαίνουν αυτά τα καθεστώτα. Μηχανισμοί (dispositifs), όπως αυτοί της μεταναστευτικής πολιτικής και της ανθρωπιστικής πολιτικής, της επισφάλειας και της θεσμοθετημένης υφαρπαγής στις νεοφιλελεύθερες οικονομίες, καθώς επίσης και αυτοί του φύλου και της συγγένειας, συνυφαίνονται μέσω περίπλοκων γενεαλογιών που δεν ανάγονται σε μια ξεκάθαρη διάκριση ανάμεσα σε υποκείμενα-θύματα και υποκείμενα-θύτες. Παρομοίως, η κινητικότητα και η στατικότητα ή η διάσχιση των συνόρων και η τακτοποιημένη ζωή δεν μπορούν εύκολα να χαρτογραφηθούν με όρους υπέρβασης ή περιορισμού: η μετανάστευση και η επιστροφή βιώνονται με τρόπο αμφίσημο, τόσο απελευθερωτικό όσο και περιοριστικό.

Negli ultimi anni il settore logistico è stato attraversato da un lato da una significativa serie di scioperi, mobilitazioni e vertenze che hanno portato in luce i soggetti e i luoghi attraverso i quali quotidianamente vengono fatte circolare le merci; dall'altro, è emerso un importante corpus di studi che attraverso numerose discipline ha adottato la logistica come lente analitica cruciale per comprendere i processi di globalizzazione e le trasformazioni dei territori, i rapporti geopolitici e geoeconomici, le trasformazioni dei modi di produzione e le nuove frontiere del lavoro e del consumo. Il presente volume adotta la prospettiva logistica evidenziando il suo carattere prismatico, cercando di spingere l'analisi verso direzioni ancora parzialmente inesplorate.

The late French writer Tony Duvert gave voice, scandalously, to the child-lover he never hid he was. He outlined, with rare precision, a desiring subjectivity struggling for existence in a hostile society, which portrayed him as a criminal. The right to homosexuality; the battle against the condemnation and the repression of underage sexuality; the deconstruction of the scary image of the 'paedophile', a bugbear typically represented as a rapist ogre; the invective against parents (the actual source of violence and of the castration forces deployed against children) and the institution of the family (the backbone of a morbid and unjust society); the ferocious criticism towards sexual and emotional capitalism, parenthood and the "bourgeois economic scheme of libidinal investment": those are some of the themes Tony Duvert deals with in his essays, and on which we focus in this paper. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion