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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.
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.
Critically interrogates of the history and politics of slavery,
from classical Greek philosophy to todayWhat makes a slave a slave?
What does it mean to think about slavery as a political question?
This book examines slavery and freedom as founding narratives of
the liberal subject and of modernity. Laura Brace asks what happens
when we try to bring slaves back into history, and into the history
of political thought in particular. Looking at scholarship on both
'old' and 'new' slavery, the book assesses the work of Aristotle,
Locke, Hegel, Kant, Wollstonecraft and Mill, and explores the
contemporary concerns of human trafficking and the prison
industrial complex to consider the limitations of 'new slavery'
discourse.Key FeaturesAnalyses the dominant liberal discourse on
slavery, from Aristotle to Nietzsche Examines the connections
between 'old' and 'new' slavery Explores the role of concepts of
power, violence, domination and subordination, issues of economic
exploitation and the organization of labour and the influence of
race and gender
What makes a slave a slave? What does it mean to think about
slavery as a political question? This book examines slavery and
freedom as founding narratives of the liberal subject and of
modernity. Laura Brace asks what happens when we try to bring
slaves back into history, and into the history of political thought
in particular. Looking at scholarship on both 'old' and 'new'
slavery, the book assesses the work of Aristotle, Locke, Hegel,
Kant, Wollstonecraft and Mill, and explores the contemporary
concerns of human trafficking and the prison industrial complex to
consider the limitations of 'new slavery' discourse.
Sovereignty is undoubtedly one of the most disputed and
controversial concepts in politics today. What does it mean to say
that a state, a people or an individual is sovereign? In this book,
twelve contributors, all specialists in their own area, tackle
these questions in different ways. Underlying the range and
diversity of their responses is a common problem: how does
sovereignty relate to society and the state? The first part focuses
upon developments in British politics, the European Union, Northern
Ireland and South Africa in the late 20th century. The second part
explores state sovereignty from an international perspective, while
the third looks towards detaching sovereignty from the state.
Feminist arguments about the self and the exploitation of
prostituted women are interrogated along with a democratic analysis
of popular organizations and a novel assessment of the question of
sovereignty and animal rights.
This book offers a theory of property that takes into account
current debates about gender, slavery, and colonialism. It
introduces property as a contested concept and explores how that
contestability is played out in political debates between thinkers,
across ideologies, and in political practice. Analyzing the key
debates, Brace illustrates how private property has been caught up
with ideas of labor, freedom, and belonging and has informed the
development of liberalism, socialism, and conservatism as well as
the construction of class, gender, and race. While examining the
works of Locke, Winstanley, Godwin, Bentham, Hegel, and Marx, this
book focuses on the idea of property as a site of struggle and as a
means of connecting individuals to civil society and the state. It
offers valuable insights into the ways in which ideas about
property influence political ideologies, thought, and
practice.
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