Spatiotemporal Stratifications: Engaging Containment and Resistance in Italian Agrifood Districts

Peano, Irene

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Peano, Irene

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For over ten years, I have been conducting research across (and about) several agro-industrial enclaves in Italy, with a special focus on Tavoliere (coinciding roughly with the flatlands in the province of Foggia, northern Apulia) and the plain of Gioia Tauro (in the province of Reggio Calabria, the southernmost tip of the Italian peninsula). These are among the top production districts for made-in- Italy agri-food — one of the country’s leading exports and a source of international renown. But their claim to fame derives not so much from the role these enclaves play in quality farming, as from less flattering, if related reasons. They are mostly known for what have been defined as “zones of social abandonment” (Biehl 2013; cf. Povinelli 2011): here as elsewhere, from Sicily to Piedmont, large slums, official labor camps, and a range of hybrid in-between spaces have developed since the late 1980s, inhabited today mainly by West African (and in some cases Roma) migrants. Many of them are employed as day laborers in the harvest of different crops — from citrus fruit, grapes, and olives to tomatoes and other horticultural produce.