Capitalist colonial : Thai migrant workers in Israeli agriculture / Matan Kaminer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaminer, Matan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Israel--Emigration and immigration.

Israel.

Thailand, Northeastern--Emigration and immigration.

Thailand, Northeastern.

Foreign workers, Thai--Israel.

Foreign workers, Thai.

Foreign workers, Thai--Arabah Valley (Israel and Jordan).

Agricultural laborers, Foreign--Israel.

Agricultural laborers, Foreign.

Agricultural laborers, Foreign--Arabah Valley (Israel and Jordan).

Thais--Israel--Social conditions.

Thais.

Thais--Arabah Valley (Israel and Jordan)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"For decades, the agricultural settlements of Israel's arid Central Arabah prided themselves on their labor-Zionist commitment to abstaining from hiring outside labor. But beginning in the late 1980s, the region's agrarian economy was rapidly transformed by the removal of state protections, a shift to export-oriented monoculture, and an influx of disenfranchised, ill-paid migrants from northeast Thailand (Isaan). Capitalist Colonial, Matan Kaminer's ethnography of the region and its people, argues that the paid and unpaid labor of Thai migrants has been essential to resolving the clashing demands of the bottom line and Zionist ideology here as elsewhere in Israel's farm sector. Kaminer's account mobilizes capitalism and colonialism as a combined analytical frame to comprehend the forms of domination prevailing in the Arabah. Placing the findings of fieldwork as a farm laborer within the ecological, economic, and political histories of the Arabah and Isaan, Kaminer draws surprising connections between the violent takeover of peripheral regions, the imposition of agrarian commodity production, and the emergence of transnational labor flows. Insisting on the liberatory possibilities immanent in the "interaction ideologies" found among both migrant workers and settler employers, and raising the question of the place of migrants who are neither Jewish nor Arab in visions of decolonization, this book demonstrates anthropology's ongoing relevance to the struggle for local and global transformations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : domination across difference

The settlement of the Central Arabah

Transnational capitalist coloniality

The "Thai revolution" in the Arabah

Producing vegetables and reproducing difference

Saving the face of the Arabah

Transnational reproduction and karmic reciprocity

Conclusion : anthropology and the politics of rupture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Kaminer, Matan. Capitalist colonial

ISBN:

9781503640511

1503640515

9781503641099

1503641090

OCLC:

1423045212

Publisher Number:

90100445395