The Palgrave Handbook of Bondage and Human Rights in Africa and Asia - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1349959561 ISBN 13: 9781349959563

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Synopsis

In the West, human bondage remains synonymous with the Atlantic slave trade. But large slave systems in Africa and Asia predated, co-existed, and overlapped with the Atlantic system―and have persisted in modified forms well into the twenty-first century, posing major threats to political and economic stability within those regions and worldwide. This handbook examines the deep historical roots of unfree labour in Africa and Asia along with its contemporary manifestations. It takes an innovative longue durée perspective in order to link the local and global, the past and present. Contributors trace shifting forms of forced labour in the region since circa 1800, connecting punctual shocks such as environmental crisis, conflict, market instability, and crop failure to human security threats such as impoverishment, violence, migration, kidnapping, and enslavement. Together, these chapters illuminate the historical and contemporary dimensions of bondage in Africa and Asia, withimportant implications for the fight against modern-day bondage and human trafficking.

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About the Author

Gwyn Campbell is Founding Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, Canada. He is also Editor of the Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies. His publications include Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to circa 1900 (2019) and An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750–1895 (2005). 

Alessandro Stanziani is Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and Research Director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris. His monographs include Labor on the Fringes of Empire: Voice, Exit and the Law (Palgrave, 2018) and Eurocentrism and the Politics of Global History (Palgrave, 2018). 

From the Back Cover

In the West, human bondage remains synonymous with the Atlantic slave trade. But large slave systems in Africa and Asia predated, co-existed, and overlapped with the Atlantic system--and have persisted in modified forms well into the twenty-first century, posing major threats to political and economic stability within those regions and worldwide. This handbook examines the deep historical roots of unfree labour in Africa and Asia along with its contemporary manifestations. It takes an innovative longue durée perspective in order to link the local and global, the past and present. Contributors trace shifting forms of forced labour in the region since 1800, connecting punctual shocks such as environmental crisis, conflict, market instability, and crop failure to human security threats such as impoverishment, violence, migration, kidnapping, and enslavement. Together, these chapters illuminate the historical and contemporary dimensions of bondage in Africa and Asia, with important implications for the fight against modern-day bondage and human trafficking.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349959561
• ISBN 13: 9781349959563
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 450
• Editor: Campbell Gwyn, Stanziani Alessandro