Sandro Mezzadra

• Professor at University of Bologna

El artículo toma el enfoque de la “autonomía de las migraciones” como punto de partida para repensar el campo emergente de los “estudios logísticos críticos”. El nuevo paradigma de movilidad provocado en la década de 1960 y en la década de 1970 por la llamada “revolución logística” es considerada desde el punto de vista de sus implicaciones para la...

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has engendered a crisis of mobility whose multiple dimensions have affected the movement of people and “stuff,” border regimes and logistical supply chains, the daily life of people in many parts of the world and the organization of labor. In such a conjuncture, digital platforms have emerged as key devices to...

This two-part work brings together the outcomes of the Horizon 2020 Project PLUS, “Platform Labor in Urban Spaces”. Running from December 2018 to March 2022, which included an extension from December 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this research project investigated the main features and dimensions of the impact of digital platforms on the econo...

Borders and mobilities have played key roles in the transformations of capitalism that have accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic. We attempt to distinguish novel developments in the control of movements of bodies, labour, and capital from processes of renationalisation, financialisation, and platformisation that were in train before the outbreak. Focu...

Die Erforschung von Grenzen erfährt aktuell eine enorme Aufmerksamkeit. Das erste deutschsprachige Handbuch zum hochdynamischen Forschungsfeld der Grenzforschung stellt das interdisziplinäre Sachgebiet in seiner Breite dar und liefert somit eine aktuelle Bestimmung des Feldes. In über 30 Beiträgen aus verschiedenen Disziplinen werden zunächst die h...

This is a dialogue between Nicholas De Genova and Sandro Mezzadra, two scholars working at the edges of disciplinarity on matters of migration, capitalism, and politics. It includes questions and comments from the audience in attendance for the original public event held in London in 2015, and new questions proposed by the editors of pariss in 2020...

We are confronting today in many global borderscapes (including the US/Mexico borderlands and the Mediterranean Sea) a criminalization of humanitarian intervention in support of people in transit. This raises important questions with respect to the critique of the governmental turn of the ‘humanitarian reason’ articulated in recent years by critica...

The Fight for Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity. By Paul Apostolidis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 328p. $99.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. - Volume 18 Issue 1 - Sandro Mezzadra, Brett Neilson

In this article, Michael Hardt and Sandro Mezzadra interview Alessandro Metz, social worker and “social” owner of the ship Mare Jonio, which seeks to aid and protect migrants during increasingly perilous Mediterranean Sea crossings.

This article strives to theoretically understand and empirically research the numerous attempts to put refugees to work in the wake of the ›long summer of migration‹ of 2015 in Germany. Starting with a discussion of the ›autonomy of migration‹ approach in light of the multiple transformations and crises of the European border regime, the authors fo...

Between Extraction and Exploitation: on Mutations in the Organization of Social Cooperation The aim of the article is to revise the notion of exploitation, within the framework of a larger research project on contemporary capitalism which foregrounds the relevance of an « extractive » logic in shaping the operations of capital in such strategic fie...

The article takes the debates surrounding the ‘politics of autonomy’ in Latin America as its point of departure and investigates the transformations of the political notion of autonomy against the background of developments that have characterized the so-called long decade of the new ‘progressive governments’ in the region. Moving beyond the altern...

This essay explores the lively debates around notions of extraction and extractivism in Latin America so as to expand these notions and thereby grasp the specificity of contemporary processes of the valorization and accumulation of capital within the region and beyond. Going beyond mining and the extensive agriculture that characterizes the notions...

Understanding the intensification and expansion of extractive industries in contemporary capitalism requires an approach attentive not only to the literal forms of extraction prevalent in mining and agribusiness but also to new fronts of extraction emerging in activities such as data mining and biocapitalism. This article introduces the concept of...

Prezentowany tekst rozpoczyna się od krótkiego omówienia kilku wpływowych badań na temat mobilności pracy w ramach historycznego i współczesnego kapitalizmu. Później, opierając się na ustaleniach z ostatniej książki autora, Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labour (napisanej razem z Brettem Neilsonem), przechodzi do namysłu nad znaczeniem...

The talk starts with a short discussion of some influential works on the mobility of labour in historical and contemporary capitalism. Drawing upon a book I recently published with Brett Neilson, Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labour, I then discuss the significance of the proliferation of borders in the global age from the point of vi...

A partir da crescente instabilidade de muitas categorias e partições epistêmicas que moldam o campo dos estudos migratórios (por exemplo, integração, migração voluntária/forçada, migrante econômico/solicitante de asilo, migrante “ilegal”), o artigo ressalta a necessidade de uma nova linguagem conceitual. Os conceitos de “inclusão diferencial” e “lu...

When the editors of Reworking Postcolonialism invited us to include in their volume our essay ‘The Postcolonial Condition: A Few Notes on the Quality of Historical Time in the Global Present’, we responded positively, not only because the essay has played a crucial role in our long-term collaboration and individual research trajectories, but becaus...

Arguing that the actuality of communism cannot be abstracted from the materiality of politics, this article engages with the works of Bruno Bosteels and Jodi Dean by affirming the radical innovation produced by the qualification of communism as a “real movement.” This entails an examination of past and present communist struggles that accounts for...

Resumen: El texto realiza un análisis crítico de la relación entre justicia y fronteras asumiendo que éstas ya no ocupan solo el confín del territorio sino que se han trasladado al corazón del espacio político. Reuniendo las críticas de Marx y Foucault a la teoría liberal de la justicia y sus perspectivas sobre la producción de subjetividad, el art...

In several Latin American countries, a decade of struggles against neo-liberalism “from below” has paved the way for “progressive” governments and for a new role of the state. Focusing in particular on the Argentinean case, this article stresses the novelty of this emerging figure of the state, analyzing it against the background of three defining...

The sovereignty of glance and the primacy of sight represent the Western modern culture far beyond its artistic expression, organizing its philosophical and political conceptuality. They deeply influence the way in which subjects are conceived and constructed in Western modernity. This is the point of departure of the long-distance dialogue between...

“New Keywords: Migration and Borders” is a collaborative writing project aimed at developing a nexus of terms and concepts that fill-out the contemporary problematic of migration. It moves beyond traditional and critical migration studies by building on cultural studies and post-colonial analyses, and by drawing on a diverse set of longstanding aut...

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This book offers an original analysis and theorization of the biopolitics of development in the postcolonial present, and draws significantly from the later works of Michel Foucault on biopolitics. Foucault s works have had a massive influence on postcolonial literatures, particularly in political science and international relations, and several au...

The sovereignty of glance and the primacy of sight represent the Western modern culture far beyond its artistic expression, organizing its philosophical and political conceptuality. They deeply influence the way in which subjects are conceived and constructed in Western modernity. This is the point of departure of the long-distance dialogue between...

This book emerges from a fundamental discontent that the three of us share with the politics of Foucault-inspired scholarship. Foucault's works have had a massive influence on postcolonial literatures, particularly in political theory, literary criticism and historiography, in recent years, and many of the authors of this book have themselves made...

The research hypothesis that we call border as method offers a fertile ground upon which to test the potentiality and the limits of the topological approach. In this article we present our hypothesis and address three questions relevant for topology. First, we ask how the topological approach can be applied within the heterogeneous space of globali...

The essay discusses some important contributions to the critical debates surrounding the issues of political subjectivity and subjectivation (A. Badiou, J. Rancière, Ch. Mouffe, E. Laclau, É. Balibar). According to the authors the main limit of these contributions lies in the idea of a «pure politics» (S. Žižek), constructed upon the model of the m...

Let us remember the slogan—quoted above—adopted by Alleanza Nazionale (National Alliance), the political successor of the neofascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (Italian Social Movement) during the election campaign of Spring 2006. To say that this slogan contained a grain of truth—like any effective ideological statement—is hardly a provocative cla...

The essay analyzes Michel Foucault's outright dismissal of the shift from politics to the political in a lecture he gave at the Collège de France in February 1983 against the background of the political and theoretical discussion on the topic within Italian workerism in the 1970s. Mario Tronti's theory of the autonomy of the political, which took C...

The essay discusses Marx's analysis of “so-called primitive accumulation” starting from the idea that contemporary global capitalism is characterized by new enclosures and by a set of other processes long considered characteristic of the historical transition to capitalism. A reflection on this temporal short circuit leads the author to an investig...

At the beginning of Provincializing Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty explains that the Europe he seeks to provincialize or de-centre is an 'imaginary figure‘ that remains deeply embedded in 'clichés and shorthand forms‘. Both social sciences and political discourses of development and citizenship continue to be shaped by these. Among these clichés a cert...

Integration wurde in den letzten Jahren auch in Deutschland zum zentralen Schlagwort in der Migrationsdebatte. Während das Konzept einerseits positiv »Teilhabe« verspricht, fungiert es in der deutschen Migrationspolitik potentiell als Exklusionsmechanismus. Dieses Buch nimmt aus Perspektiven der Politik, Wissenschaft, Kunst und des Aktivismus das I...

Operaismo (“operaism”), also known in the English‐speaking world as “autonomist Marxism,” refers to a theoretical and political current of Marxist thought that emerged in Italy in the early 1960s. An original reading of Marx in the framework of the radical workers' struggles that developed in the country during the decade led to the invention of ne...

DEVOLVER TODA LA RADICALIDAD al pensamiento sobre la coyuntura es una urgencia implícita en toda crisis económica. Y sin embargo, estas aportaciones van mucho más allá de la lectura de la crisis. Nos hablan de una cesura epocal, de una transformación radical del capitalismo y de sus modos de extorsión y extracción de valor. Común a todas ellas es l...

Este ensayo investiga algunos aspectos centrales de las reflexiones políticas y teóricas de W. E. B. Du Bois, el principal referente intelectual y activista afroamericano de la primera mitad del siglo XX. El autor muestra el modo en que en su formación intelectual la práctica de "cruces atlánticos" y el intenso diálogo con la cultura europea lo con...

La condizione postcoloniale ombre corte / culture Storia e politica nel presente globale Sandro Mezzadra La condizione postcoloniale Negli ultimi anni gli " studi postcoloniali " hanno arricchito la nostra com-prensione della storia della modernità e del presente globale, portando alla luce il ruolo costitutivo che ha giocato nella definizione di e...

The proliferation of boundaries, i.e. their constant fall and re-composition, is one of the most evident outcomes of globalisation. Setting off from this statement, the author explores the new nature that boundaries are assuming, with a particular reference to contemporary migratory flows, their «turbulent» aspects and associated processes of trans...

Our experience of the world swings between two extremes, unification-globalization and forms of turbulence. Postcolonial studies stand at the juncture between the two, hence their interest. They question, not so much modernity as the European model of modernity, abstract in substance, linear in time and space (extending from the center to the perip...

h.— Indice 7 Prefazione alla nuova edizione PARTE PRIMA 17 Introduzione 29 Prologo. Il giovane Max Weber, il diritto di fuga dei migranti tede-schi e gli stomaci polacchi Rarissimae aves; Magia della libertà; Una società di nemici; Stomaci diversa-mente costituiti 47 In principio era la forca. Migrazioni, mobilità del lavoro e storia del capitalism...

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The « migrant » cannot dissolve in the figure of « the Other » : if European societies have spent so much energy,for decades and centuries, marking migrants (with passport s, visas,or refusal to grant such papers) and parking them (in ghettoes,townships and camps),it is because they see in the « intruder » a reflection not of the Other,but of thems...

The « migrant » cannot dissolve in the figure of « the Other » : if European societies have spent so much energy,for decades and centuries, marking migrants (with passport s, visas,or refusal to grant such papers) and parking them (in ghettoes,townships and camps),it is because they see in the « intruder » a reflection not of the Other,but of thems...

Traficantes de Sueños no es una casa editorial, ni siquiera una editorial independiente que contempla la publicación de una colección variable de textos críticos. Es, por el contrario, un proyecto, en el sentido estricto de «apuesta», que se dirige a cartografiar las líneas constituyentes de otras formas de vida. La construcción teórica y práctica...

Workshop abstract Migrants coming from or crossing Middle Eastern or North African countries increasingly arrive at the Mediterranean borders of Europe and put forward urgent questions for social and political thought as well as for European policies. The workshop proposes to relate these various forms of migration to the multifarious practices, no...