This book discusses the radical transformation of eastern Congo's political order in the context of apparent armed destruction and state weakness. Looking beyond the dominant paradigms, the author critically assesses the premises of this region's presumed collapse into chaos. He traces violent rule patterns back to a tumultuous history of extra-economic accumulation, armed rebellion and de facto public authority in the margins of regional power plays. Rather than curing the world's ills, the originality of this book lies in its neat focus on cultural and economic uncertainty. It answers the question of what institutional changes are the result of strategies of daily risk management in an environment characterised by violent competition over the right to govern.

Violent Capitalism and Hybrid Identity in the Eastern Congo: Power to the Margins

Politics & Social Sciences

Raeymaekers, Timothy

Politics & Government

Cambridge University Press

This survey of various African and Asian conflicts examines people's experiences on territorial borders and the ways they affect political configurations. By focusing on individuals' routines and daily life, these contributions treat borderland dynamics as actual political units with their own actions and outcomes.

Violence on the Margins: States, Conflict, and Borderlands (Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies)

History

Africa

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This survey of various African and Asian conflicts examines people's experiences on territorial borders and the ways they affect political configurations. By focusing on individuals' routines and daily life, these contributions treat borderland dynamics as actual political units with their own actions and outcomes.

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. 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 The Natural Border demonstrates, reflect the tense socio-ecological transformation the Mediterranean border space is going through today.

The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean

Cornell University Press

Natural Border

Ithaca : Cornell University Press

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Violent Capitalism and Hybrid Identity in the Eastern Congo: Power to the Margins

Violence on the Margins: States, Conflict, and Borderlands (Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies)

Violence on the Margins: States, Conflict, and Borderlands (Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies)

The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean

Natural Border