Contemporary slavery : popular rhetoric and political practice

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    • Bunting, Annie
    • Quirk, Joel

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Contemporary slavery : popular rhetoric and political practice

edited by Annie Bunting and Joel Quirk

(Law and society series)

UBCPress, c2017

  • : hardcover

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-354) and index

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Contemporary slavery has emerged as a source of fascination and a spur to political mobilization. This volume brings together experts to carefully explore how the language 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 remain subject to a host of limitations and complications. Recent efforts to combat slavery are too often sensationalist, self-serving, and superficial and end up failing the test of speaking truth to power. Bringing about lasting change will require direct challenges to dominant political and economic interests.

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