Abstract

GONCALVES LEITE, Ana Carolina  and  GIAVAROTTI, Daniel Manzione. Territorial Pattern and Labor Crisis: Confinement as a Form of Territorialization of Contemporary Capitalist Social Relations. Cuad. Geogr. Rev. Colomb. Geogr. [online]. 2020, vol.29, n.1, pp.32-50. ISSN 0121-215X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcdg.v29n1.76443.

On the basis of Michel Foucault's considerations on prisons and Loïc Wacquant's updating of his inquiries in the 21st century, we provide a critical interpretation of the territorial pattern of confinement in the contemporary world, which includes but also goes beyond the prison. A brief presentation of territorial patterns of confinement throughout the process of modernization, whether in the plantation, the region, or the metropolization process, serves to situate the meaning of each one of these practices, on the basis of Loïc Wacquant's suggestions regarding particular institutions, but discussed in the light of the contradictory developments of the expanded reproduction of capital, which, due to the microelectronic revolution, generates a fictitious accumulation as it gradually dispenses with the unpropertied populations for its accumulation. In this scenario, we explore the point at which the exercise of labor mobility intersects with that of biopolitics, transforming the latter into necropolitics, given the disposability of workers. This allows us to qualify and differentiate the territorial pattern of confinement today from previous similar practices, in the contemporary context of total mobility amidst crisis, of the collapse of modernization and its civilizatory horizon.

Main Ideas: Reflection article regarding the territorial pattern of confinement in the contemporary world. It discusses previous confinement patterns and their functionality in reproducing capital, and interprets the current pattern on the basis of the fact that it breaks with said functionality. We relate its establishment with the crisis of labor and the necro-management of population arising from the latter.

Keywords : confinement; disposable labor; population management; labor's mobility of crisis; necropolitics; territorial pattern of confinement.

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