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The paper addresses the ways in which the management of migration and of migrant labour, with
particular reference to italian agro-industrial enclaves, has relied upon forms of de-humanisation, whose
targets (mainly West African migrants) identify as forms of animalisation. Manhunts and lynchings are
the crudest forms of such violent exclusions, which however also manifest in more subtle and generalised
patterns,
characteristic of the humanitarian regime of migration management itself. Against what, drawing
on Derrida and Vaughan Williams, I term «zoopolitical» violence, I consider the emergence — in the slums
of agro-industrial enclaves where West African workers live — of relations between humans and animals
that flag the possibility of a human or animal being treated in an equivalent way. Such reflections are the
result
of a protracted engagement in these settings, founded on a form of participant observation which
aims not at neutral description and analysis, in the ethnographic mould, but at actively supporting and
elaborating alternative futures. To do so, the notions of anthropos and ethnos which have informed anthropological
scholarship since its inception also need to be radically rethought, precisely through engagement
with other ways of making and being human.
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zoopolitics after-ethnography human-ness
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Citation
Peano, I. (2020). Ways of making a human otherwise: After-ethnography with migrant labourers in Italian agro-industrial enclaves. In Jorge, V. O. (Ed.), Modos de Fazer/Ways of Making, pp. 219-230. CITCEM. Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar Cultura, Espaço e Memória
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CITCEM. Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar Cultura, Espaço e Memória