The Politics of Slavery

ISBN-13: 9781474401142 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str.

Laura Brace

Opis

Looking at scholarship on both 'old' and 'new' slavery, Laura Brace 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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; 1. Shining a Light on Slavery?; 2. Aristotle and the Strangeness of Slaves; 3. Locke and Hutcheson: Indians, Vagabonds and Drones; 4. Empires of Property, Properties of Empire; 5. Hegel, Humanity and Freedom; 6. Unparalleled Drudgery and Severe Labour; 7. The Subjection of Women: loopholes of retreat?; 8. Incarceration and Rupture: The Past in the Present; 9. Trafficking and Slavery: A Place of No Return; 10. Glimpses of Slavery; References.