2018-04-03
The problem of modern-day slavery: Is critical applied history the answer?
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Slavery and Abolition , Volume 39 - Issue 2 p. 405- 428
This article suggests that historians have much more to offer in the fight against modern-day slavery and human trafficking. It argues that the modern-day abolitionist movement should reorient its approach in the fight against slavery, as it tends to rely on a sanitized, unproblematic, rendering of the eighteenth and nineteenth-century abolitionist movement while simultaneously side-stepping discussions about the impact of global neo-liberal economic order. The article advances the notion of critical applied history which provides a methodological framework that can facilitate discussions about the role of power, historicity, and memory in shaping present-day abolitionist discourses.
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Diptee, A. (2018). The problem of modern-day slavery: Is critical applied history the answer?. Slavery and Abolition, 39(2), 405–428. doi:10.1080/0144039X.2017.1397091
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