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.

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Border Realities is the multidisciplinary, international and online lecture series of UniGR-CBS. The 2024/2025 edition of "Border Realities" is co-organized and chaired by Lola Aubry (UniGR-CBS, University of Luxembourg) and Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary (Pacte, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes) and explores border realities beyond the nature-culture binary.  The lecture series “Border Realities” is open to the public and is aimed at researchers, students, and the interested public