Contemporary Slavery : Popular Rhetoric and Political Practice Hardback
Edited by Annie Bunting, Joel Quirk
Part of the Law and Society series
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Contemporary slavery has recently and unexpectedly emerged as a source of both popular fascination and a spur to political mobilization.
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 and visual 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 anti-slavery 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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:670 pages
- Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
- Publication Date:15/06/2017
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- ISBN:9780774832434
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:670 pages
- Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
- Publication Date:15/06/2017
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- ISBN:9780774832434