The Intertwinement of Symbolic and Structural Violence: Migrant Agricultural Labourers in Two Regions of Southern Italy ^☆

Amara e bella, bitter and beautiful: A praxis of care in valuing Sicilian olive oil and landscapes

“…Because I interviewed only one producer who would be considered a large producer (>30 ha), findings reflect the realities of small to medium producers rather than large or corporate producers.5 I am only discussing extra-virgin olive oil, not the rest of the expansive business of virgin, pomace, and oil by-products.6 Some growers pay teams of harvesters, and the mill, in olives. I explore these noncapitalist forms of exchange elsewhere.7 Ecomafia refers to organized criminal activities that cause environmental degradation, such as dumping toxic waste.8 I asked this because of well-documented abuse of migrant workers in Sicily and Italy (e.g.,Lo Cascio and Perrotta 2019;Tondo 2018).…”