Timothy Raeymaekers
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 409391 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Timothy Raeymaekers |
| NOMBRES | Timothy |
| APELLIDO | Raeymaekers |
| FIRMA | RAEYMAEKERS T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7205-6917 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 249 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The Politics of Infrastructural Ruination. (Re)bordering Practices in Time of ‘Emergency’ In Trieste, Italy
In recent years, an increasing number of studies on migration and borders have adopted an infrastructural approach to conceptualising bordering processes. These studies suggest that considering borders as infrastructures emphasises the ever-changing interplay between the various actors, institutions, technologies and scales affecting migration management and control. However, the influence of place-specific social environments on the formation of…
Race, space, and social reproduction
This article addresses the question of migrant workers' exploitation from a feminist political economy and critical race perspective. Overall, my analysis promotes a reinterpretation of workers' exploitation beyond a narrow focus on labour and production, and towards a consideration of the active social differentiation and reproduction of the work force. Based on my analysis of Black African workers' conditions in the Italian 'tomato district' of…
Whose underground? Entangled territorialization and mining cooperatives in eastern Congo’s gold frontier
This article uses the term ‘entangled territorialization’ to assess the active role of mining cooperatives in manipulating the access to natural resources in a context of limited state authority. The case study at hand, which concerns the ‘discovery’ of gold deposits in Luhihi, Democratic Republic of Congo in 2020, discusses the contrasting capabilities of two mining cooperatives, COOMIUKI, and COMILU, to position themselves as ‘quasi-state actor…
Naturalising ‘Black Spaces’ in the Mediterranean
This paper introduces the terminology of border infrastructures as a way to enrich a multi-perspectival approach to territorial bordering processes that takes seriously their stratifying and racialising dynamics. Building on the analysis of migrant informal dwellings, or ghettos, which are increasingly constructed as naturalised ‘black spaces’ in the Mediterranean, the paper’s contribution is twofold. First, it calls for more situated research in…
Caporalato capitalism. Labour brokerage and agrarian change in a Mediterranean society
This article discusses the persistence of illegal labour mediation in Italian industrialized agricultural production despite a decade of legal and policy reforms. Focusing on the regions of Puglia and Basilicata during the so-called Mediterranean 'refugee crisis' (2011-2018), it analyses such mediation as a central infrastructure of contemporary capitalist agri-food supply chains, which both capitalizes on the value of labour reproduction, and co…
Vite postume del Mediterraneo e il ricordo della presenza Nera
Questo intervento discute la prospettiva del Mediterraneo nero dal punto di vista empirci ed analitico
Mediterranean afterlives and the memory of Black presence
This article constitutes a long commentary on the section 'geographies of the Black Mediterranean', special issue in this Journal
Speaking Back to Sovereign Power
In this short commentary, I will reflect on the contributions of this special section from an Africanist perspective, which shows both similarities and differences with the South Asian experiences. For a long time, the dogma has been that African states do not wield full sovereign power over their citizens. Because most colonial states did not make any effort to extend administrative presence much beyond urban populations as well as a few sites o…
Geographies of Limited Statehood
Starting from the presupposition that areas of limited statehood (ALS) are not ungoverned, but 'differently' governed, this chapter proposes a spatial grammar that analyses authority and governance as a socio-spatial relationship. This spatial grammar distinguishes four types of dynamic socio-spatial relations-territory, place, scale, and network-and enables us to spatially analyse (a) how political authority is contested, claimed, upheld, and di…
"Terr(it)or(ies) of Peace? The Congolese Mining Frontier and the Fight Against "Conflict Minerals
This article traces the geography of the "conflict minerals" campaign and its impact on artisanal mining in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a region that currently emerges as a pioneer case of traceability and due diligence efforts with regard to the exploitation and trade in tantalum, tungsten and tin. We subsequently analyse the opening and attempted closure of the Congolese resource frontier in the context of recent market reform…
Violent Capitalism and Hybrid Identity in the Eastern Congo
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 p…
Violence on the Margins
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 dail
Violence on the Margins
Post-war Conflict and the Market for Protection
This article seeks to deepen the debate about violent war-to-peace transitions through a comparative case study between two rebel movements that became integrated in considerably different ways in post-war Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The political marketplace brought about by Congo's war-to-peace transition substantially influenced the bargaining power of non-state armed actors in the country's eastern borderlands. In such violent environ…
Reshaping the state in its margins
In this article I explore the changing interface of states and markets in the borderland of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during the current phase of 'post-conflict' state reconstruction. The renewed centrality of the state in regional economic development in the aftermath of war raises some mixed reactions at the border, as various efforts to 'bring the state back in' invariably meet with entrenched forms of 'informal' integr…
Protection for Sale? War and the Transformation of Regulation on the Congo-Ugandan Border
This article proposes an explanation for the emergence of non-state governance in situations of apparent state collapse, based on an ethnographic study of the armed rebellion in Butembo (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo). The model of explanation is inspired by Charles Tilly's description of state making as organized crime, in which armed rebels and private economic agents enter an agreement for private protection. The study seeks to explain …
Kivu's Intractable Security Conundrum
The security problems of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continue to puzzle international peace and policy makers. Despite President Joseph Kabila successfully winning the national elections in August and October 2006, the country has not emerged from its security deadlock. This briefing argues that the current strategy of peace building in the DRC leads to the amplification rather than the containment of armed violence. According to Andre…
The silent encroachment of the frontier
Economic opportunities and local governance on an African frontier
The Semliki Basin historically represents a dynamic borderland between the interlacustrian kingdoms of the African Rift Valley (the Toro and Buganda) and the mountain people of the Western Rwenzori slopes and the Mitumba Mountains, in contemporary DR Congo. Typically an agro-pastoralist area, it has hosted a lively trade between the Toro kingdom, around lake Katwe, and the neighbouring Bakonzo and Banande, living respectively in Kasese and Bundib…
State and non-state regulation in African protracted crises
This article introduces a collection of papers that treat the question of governance in conditions of protracted crises in Subsahara Africa. Contrary to the widespread belief that African conflicts are little more than (undoubtedly complex and intractable) instances of anarchy and chaos, the authors present the reader with tangible evidence of the existence of non-state governance processes by constituencies attempting to manage the perils of lon…
New political order in the DR Congo? the transformation of regulation
It has been said repeatedly: the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) remains only a shadow of its former self, a typical case of state failure and collapse. Closer observation suggests a different image, however: not only has this country demonstrated “a remarkable propensity for resilience” (Englebert, 2003), its administration and regulatory frameworks – which in some domains have not changed since colonial times – have remained large…
New political order in the DR Congo? the transformation of regulation
It has been said repeatedly: the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) remains only a shadow of its former self, a typical case of state failure and collapse. Closer observation suggests a different image, however: not only has this country demonstrated “a remarkable propensity for resilience” (Englebert, 2003), its administration and regulatory frameworks – which in some domains have not changed since colonial times – have remained large…
State and non-state regulation in African protracted crises
This article introduces a collection of papers that treat the question of governance in conditions of protracted crises in Subsahara Africa. Contrary to the widespread belief that African conflicts are little more than (undoubtedly complex and intractable) instances of anarchy and chaos, the authors present the reader with tangible evidence of the existence of non-state governance processes by constituencies attempting to manage the perils of lon…
Gouvernance et ethnographie en temps de crise
Cet article explore les effets de l’intensification agricole sur le pouvoir local dans le village de Koyra (Nord Mali). Suite aux sécheresses des années 1970 et 1980 et à la création de périmètres irrigués dans la vallée du fleuve Niger, la gestion foncière et la production de riz sont devenus des enjeux économiques majeurs. Cette étude analyse l’émergence politique d’entrepreneurs qui, en contrôlant la distribution de la terre et la réalisation …
Colapso u orden? Cuestionando el colapso del estado en África
Após o 11 de setembro, o problema do "colapso" do Estado reaparece na agenda como uma importante questão de segurança global. No entanto, a discussão acadêmica não foi muito além da interferência nas dinâmicas pós-conflito de várias "ordens" novas que ultrapassam as capacidades tradicionais dos Estados. A discussão sobre o colapso do Estado parece estar cada vez mais num impasse entre as abordagens estato-cêntricas clássicas - que continuam a apo…
State and non-state regulation in African protracted crises
This article introduces a collection of papers that treat the question of governance in conditions of protracted crises in Subsahara Africa. Contrary to the widespread belief that African conflicts are little more than (undoubtedly complex and intractable) instances of anarchy and chaos, the authors present the reader with tangible evidence of the existence of non-state governance processes by constituencies attempting to manage the perils of lon…
"Terr(it)or(ies) of Peace? The Congolese Mining Frontier and the Fight Against "Conflict Minerals
This article traces the geography of the "conflict minerals" campaign and its impact on artisanal mining in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a region that currently emerges as a pioneer case of traceability and due diligence efforts with regard to the exploitation and trade in tantalum, tungsten and tin. We subsequently analyse the opening and attempted closure of the Congolese resource frontier in the context of recent market reform…
Protection for Sale? War and the Transformation of Regulation on the Congo-Ugandan Border
This article proposes an explanation for the emergence of non-state governance in situations of apparent state collapse, based on an ethnographic study of the armed rebellion in Butembo (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo). The model of explanation is inspired by Charles Tilly's description of state making as organized crime, in which armed rebels and private economic agents enter an agreement for private protection. The study seeks to explain …
The silent encroachment of the frontier
Caporalato capitalism. Labour brokerage and agrarian change in a Mediterranean society
This article discusses the persistence of illegal labour mediation in Italian industrialized agricultural production despite a decade of legal and policy reforms. Focusing on the regions of Puglia and Basilicata during the so-called Mediterranean 'refugee crisis' (2011-2018), it analyses such mediation as a central infrastructure of contemporary capitalist agri-food supply chains, which both capitalizes on the value of labour reproduction, and co…
Post-war Conflict and the Market for Protection
This article seeks to deepen the debate about violent war-to-peace transitions through a comparative case study between two rebel movements that became integrated in considerably different ways in post-war Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The political marketplace brought about by Congo's war-to-peace transition substantially influenced the bargaining power of non-state armed actors in the country's eastern borderlands. In such violent environ…
Kivu's Intractable Security Conundrum
The security problems of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continue to puzzle international peace and policy makers. Despite President Joseph Kabila successfully winning the national elections in August and October 2006, the country has not emerged from its security deadlock. This briefing argues that the current strategy of peace building in the DRC leads to the amplification rather than the containment of armed violence. According to Andre…
Economic opportunities and local governance on an African frontier
The Semliki Basin historically represents a dynamic borderland between the interlacustrian kingdoms of the African Rift Valley (the Toro and Buganda) and the mountain people of the Western Rwenzori slopes and the Mitumba Mountains, in contemporary DR Congo. Typically an agro-pastoralist area, it has hosted a lively trade between the Toro kingdom, around lake Katwe, and the neighbouring Bakonzo and Banande, living respectively in Kasese and Bundib…
Gouvernance et ethnographie en temps de crise
Cet article explore les effets de l’intensification agricole sur le pouvoir local dans le village de Koyra (Nord Mali). Suite aux sécheresses des années 1970 et 1980 et à la création de périmètres irrigués dans la vallée du fleuve Niger, la gestion foncière et la production de riz sont devenus des enjeux économiques majeurs. Cette étude analyse l’émergence politique d’entrepreneurs qui, en contrôlant la distribution de la terre et la réalisation …
Reshaping the state in its margins
In this article I explore the changing interface of states and markets in the borderland of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during the current phase of 'post-conflict' state reconstruction. The renewed centrality of the state in regional economic development in the aftermath of war raises some mixed reactions at the border, as various efforts to 'bring the state back in' invariably meet with entrenched forms of 'informal' integr…
Geographies of Limited Statehood
Starting from the presupposition that areas of limited statehood (ALS) are not ungoverned, but 'differently' governed, this chapter proposes a spatial grammar that analyses authority and governance as a socio-spatial relationship. This spatial grammar distinguishes four types of dynamic socio-spatial relations-territory, place, scale, and network-and enables us to spatially analyse (a) how political authority is contested, claimed, upheld, and di…
Naturalising ‘Black Spaces’ in the Mediterranean
This paper introduces the terminology of border infrastructures as a way to enrich a multi-perspectival approach to territorial bordering processes that takes seriously their stratifying and racialising dynamics. Building on the analysis of migrant informal dwellings, or ghettos, which are increasingly constructed as naturalised ‘black spaces’ in the Mediterranean, the paper’s contribution is twofold. First, it calls for more situated research in…
Speaking Back to Sovereign Power
In this short commentary, I will reflect on the contributions of this special section from an Africanist perspective, which shows both similarities and differences with the South Asian experiences. For a long time, the dogma has been that African states do not wield full sovereign power over their citizens. Because most colonial states did not make any effort to extend administrative presence much beyond urban populations as well as a few sites o…
Colapso u orden? Cuestionando el colapso del estado en África
Após o 11 de setembro, o problema do "colapso" do Estado reaparece na agenda como uma importante questão de segurança global. No entanto, a discussão acadêmica não foi muito além da interferência nas dinâmicas pós-conflito de várias "ordens" novas que ultrapassam as capacidades tradicionais dos Estados. A discussão sobre o colapso do Estado parece estar cada vez mais num impasse entre as abordagens estato-cêntricas clássicas - que continuam a apo…
Reshaping Congolese Statehood In The Midst Of Crisis And Transition
This chapter proposes an explanation for the gradual commodification of Congolese sovereignty among different forms of cooperation and conflict, produced by a variety of types of institutions and agents. It gives an introduction to the emergence of authoritarianism and its gradual collapse under President Desire Mobutu, who for a long time succeeded in imposing his dictatorial over Congo's fragmented society. The chapter discusses the period of r…
State and non-state regulation in African protracted crises
This article introduces a collection of papers that treat the question of governance in conditions of protracted crises in Subsahara Africa. Contrary to the widespread belief that African conflicts are little more than (undoubtedly complex and intractable) instances of anarchy and chaos, the authors present the reader with tangible evidence of the existence of non-state governance processes by constituencies attempting to manage the perils of lon…
New political order in the DR Congo? the transformation of regulation
It has been said repeatedly: the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) remains only a shadow of its former self, a typical case of state failure and collapse. Closer observation suggests a different image, however: not only has this country demonstrated “a remarkable propensity for resilience” (Englebert, 2003), its administration and regulatory frameworks – which in some domains have not changed since colonial times – have remained large…
New political order in the DR Congo? the transformation of regulation
It has been said repeatedly: the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) remains only a shadow of its former self, a typical case of state failure and collapse. Closer observation suggests a different image, however: not only has this country demonstrated “a remarkable propensity for resilience” (Englebert, 2003), its administration and regulatory frameworks – which in some domains have not changed since colonial times – have remained large…
State and non-state regulation in African protracted crises
This article introduces a collection of papers that treat the question of governance in conditions of protracted crises in Subsahara Africa. Contrary to the widespread belief that African conflicts are little more than (undoubtedly complex and intractable) instances of anarchy and chaos, the authors present the reader with tangible evidence of the existence of non-state governance processes by constituencies attempting to manage the perils of lon…
Gouvernance et ethnographie en temps de crise
Cet article explore les effets de l’intensification agricole sur le pouvoir local dans le village de Koyra (Nord Mali). Suite aux sécheresses des années 1970 et 1980 et à la création de périmètres irrigués dans la vallée du fleuve Niger, la gestion foncière et la production de riz sont devenus des enjeux économiques majeurs. Cette étude analyse l’émergence politique d’entrepreneurs qui, en contrôlant la distribution de la terre et la réalisation …
Colapso u orden? Cuestionando el colapso del estado en África
Após o 11 de setembro, o problema do "colapso" do Estado reaparece na agenda como uma importante questão de segurança global. No entanto, a discussão acadêmica não foi muito além da interferência nas dinâmicas pós-conflito de várias "ordens" novas que ultrapassam as capacidades tradicionais dos Estados. A discussão sobre o colapso do Estado parece estar cada vez mais num impasse entre as abordagens estato-cêntricas clássicas - que continuam a apo…
Kivu's Intractable Security Conundrum
The security problems of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continue to puzzle international peace and policy makers. Despite President Joseph Kabila successfully winning the national elections in August and October 2006, the country has not emerged from its security deadlock. This briefing argues that the current strategy of peace building in the DRC leads to the amplification rather than the containment of armed violence. According to Andre…
The silent encroachment of the frontier
Economic opportunities and local governance on an African frontier
The Semliki Basin historically represents a dynamic borderland between the interlacustrian kingdoms of the African Rift Valley (the Toro and Buganda) and the mountain people of the Western Rwenzori slopes and the Mitumba Mountains, in contemporary DR Congo. Typically an agro-pastoralist area, it has hosted a lively trade between the Toro kingdom, around lake Katwe, and the neighbouring Bakonzo and Banande, living respectively in Kasese and Bundib…
Protection for Sale? War and the Transformation of Regulation on the Congo-Ugandan Border
This article proposes an explanation for the emergence of non-state governance in situations of apparent state collapse, based on an ethnographic study of the armed rebellion in Butembo (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo). The model of explanation is inspired by Charles Tilly's description of state making as organized crime, in which armed rebels and private economic agents enter an agreement for private protection. The study seeks to explain …
Reshaping the state in its margins
In this article I explore the changing interface of states and markets in the borderland of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during the current phase of 'post-conflict' state reconstruction. The renewed centrality of the state in regional economic development in the aftermath of war raises some mixed reactions at the border, as various efforts to 'bring the state back in' invariably meet with entrenched forms of 'informal' integr…
Violence on the Margins
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 dail
Violence on the Margins
Post-war Conflict and the Market for Protection
This article seeks to deepen the debate about violent war-to-peace transitions through a comparative case study between two rebel movements that became integrated in considerably different ways in post-war Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The political marketplace brought about by Congo's war-to-peace transition substantially influenced the bargaining power of non-state armed actors in the country's eastern borderlands. In such violent environ…
Violent Capitalism and Hybrid Identity in the Eastern Congo
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 p…
"Terr(it)or(ies) of Peace? The Congolese Mining Frontier and the Fight Against "Conflict Minerals
This article traces the geography of the "conflict minerals" campaign and its impact on artisanal mining in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a region that currently emerges as a pioneer case of traceability and due diligence efforts with regard to the exploitation and trade in tantalum, tungsten and tin. We subsequently analyse the opening and attempted closure of the Congolese resource frontier in the context of recent market reform…
Geographies of Limited Statehood
Starting from the presupposition that areas of limited statehood (ALS) are not ungoverned, but 'differently' governed, this chapter proposes a spatial grammar that analyses authority and governance as a socio-spatial relationship. This spatial grammar distinguishes four types of dynamic socio-spatial relations-territory, place, scale, and network-and enables us to spatially analyse (a) how political authority is contested, claimed, upheld, and di…
Speaking Back to Sovereign Power
In this short commentary, I will reflect on the contributions of this special section from an Africanist perspective, which shows both similarities and differences with the South Asian experiences. For a long time, the dogma has been that African states do not wield full sovereign power over their citizens. Because most colonial states did not make any effort to extend administrative presence much beyond urban populations as well as a few sites o…
Vite postume del Mediterraneo e il ricordo della presenza Nera
Questo intervento discute la prospettiva del Mediterraneo nero dal punto di vista empirci ed analitico
Mediterranean afterlives and the memory of Black presence
This article constitutes a long commentary on the section 'geographies of the Black Mediterranean', special issue in this Journal
Caporalato capitalism. Labour brokerage and agrarian change in a Mediterranean society
This article discusses the persistence of illegal labour mediation in Italian industrialized agricultural production despite a decade of legal and policy reforms. Focusing on the regions of Puglia and Basilicata during the so-called Mediterranean 'refugee crisis' (2011-2018), it analyses such mediation as a central infrastructure of contemporary capitalist agri-food supply chains, which both capitalizes on the value of labour reproduction, and co…
Whose underground? Entangled territorialization and mining cooperatives in eastern Congo’s gold frontier
This article uses the term ‘entangled territorialization’ to assess the active role of mining cooperatives in manipulating the access to natural resources in a context of limited state authority. The case study at hand, which concerns the ‘discovery’ of gold deposits in Luhihi, Democratic Republic of Congo in 2020, discusses the contrasting capabilities of two mining cooperatives, COOMIUKI, and COMILU, to position themselves as ‘quasi-state actor…
Naturalising ‘Black Spaces’ in the Mediterranean
This paper introduces the terminology of border infrastructures as a way to enrich a multi-perspectival approach to territorial bordering processes that takes seriously their stratifying and racialising dynamics. Building on the analysis of migrant informal dwellings, or ghettos, which are increasingly constructed as naturalised ‘black spaces’ in the Mediterranean, the paper’s contribution is twofold. First, it calls for more situated research in…
Race, space, and social reproduction
This article addresses the question of migrant workers' exploitation from a feminist political economy and critical race perspective. Overall, my analysis promotes a reinterpretation of workers' exploitation beyond a narrow focus on labour and production, and towards a consideration of the active social differentiation and reproduction of the work force. Based on my analysis of Black African workers' conditions in the Italian 'tomato district' of…
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