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Contemporary Slavery: The Rhetoric of Global Human Rights Campaigns - Softcover

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9781501718762: Contemporary Slavery: The Rhetoric of Global Human Rights Campaigns
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1501718762 ISBN 13: 9781501718762
Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2018

Synopsis

This volume brings together a cast of leading experts to carefully explore how the history and iconography of slavery has been invoked to support a series of government interventions, activist projects, legal instruments, and rhetorical performances. However well-intentioned these interventions might be, they nonetheless remain subject to a host of limitations and complications. Recent efforts to combat contemporary slavery are too often sensationalist, self-serving, and superficial and, therefore, end up failing the crucial test of speaking truth to power.

The widely held notion that antislavery is one of those rare issues that "transcends" politics or ideology is only sustainable because the underlying issues at stake have been constructed and demarcated in a way that minimizes direct challenges to dominant political and economic interests. This must change. By providing an original approach to the underlying issues at stake, Contemporary Slavery will help readers understand the political practices that have been concealed beneath the popular rhetoric and establishes new conversations between scholars of slavery and trafficking and scholars of human rights and social movements.

Contributors:
Jean Allain, Jonathan Blagbrough, Roy Brooks, Annie Bunting, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Andrew Crane, Rhoda Howard-Hassmann, Fuyuki Kurasawa, Benjamin Lawrance, Joel Quirk, and Darshan Vigneswaran

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About the Author

Annie Bunting is Associate Professor of Law and Society at York University and Deputy Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and Its Diasporas. Joel Quirk is Professor of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand.

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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1501718762
ISBN 13 
9781501718762
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
396
Editor
Bunting Annie, Quirk Joel