Revisiting Slavery and Antislavery: Towards a Critical Analysis 1st Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10: 3319906232
• ISBN-13: 9783319906232
• Author: Julia O’Connell Davidson, Laura Brace
  

Despite growing popular and policy interest in ‘new’ slavery, with contemporary abolitionists calling for action to free an estimated 40 million ‘modern slaves’, interdisciplinary and theoretical dialogue has been largely missing from scholarship on ‘modern slavery’. This edited volume will provide a space to reinvigorate the theory and practice of representing slavery and related systems of domination, in particular our understandings of the binary between slavery and freedom in different historical and political contexts. The book takes a critical approach, interrogating the concept of modern slavery by exploring where it has come from, and its potential for obscuring and foreclosing new understandings. Including contributions from philosophers, political theorists, sociologists, anthropologists, and English literature scholars, it adds to the emerging critique of the concept of ‘modern slavery’ through its focus on the connections between the past of Atlantic World slavery, the present of contemporary groups whose freedoms are heavily restricted (prisoners, child labourers in the Global South, migrant domestic workers, and migrant wives), and the futures envisaged by activists struggling against different elements of the systems of domination that Atlantic World slavery relied upon and spawned. Revisiting Slavery & Antislavery will be of indispensable value to scholars, students, policy makers and activists in the fields of human rights, modern history, international politics, social policy, sociology and global inequality.

Table contents:

Part I. Past
1. Slavery and the Revival of Anti-slavery Activism
2. Contextualizing Slavery’s Wrongness
3. The Liberty of Naming
4. Historicizing Freedom of Movement: Memory and Exile in Political Context
5. Immigration Restrictions and the Politics of Protection
Part II. Present
6. Prison Labour, Slavery, and the State
7. From Victims of Trafficking to Freedom Fighters: Rethinking Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East
8. “Back Home, It Would Have Been Worse Anyway…”: Vietnamese Wives’ Perspectives on Their ‘Arranged’ Marriages with Chinese Men
9. Moral Economies and Child Labour in Artisanal Gold Mining in Ghana
Part III. Revisiting the Politics of Antislavery
10. Abolitionist Anti-politics? Capitalism, Coercion and the Modern Anti-slavery Movement
11. Empowering Women: The Contradictions of Feminist Governance
12. Abolition Terminable and Interminable

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