Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: With the growing visibility of the contemporary antislavery movement on the global stage, and the rising demand for new and revolutionary research about human exploitation, emergent scholarship in the field is becoming increasingly vital.New ideas and approaches are crucial to understand and engage with the complex and constantly evolving institution.As exploitation adapts over time in response to changes in context, efforts to combat the phenomena must also transform -demanding research that grapples with the myriad of possible forms it might take and presents solutions not only to the problems of today, but to the challenges of tomorrow.Yet, in order to tend to the future, it is fundamental that we listen to the past.History must be the bedrock for the development of law, business, policy, art, literature and technology in this field, because the contemporary manifestations of exploitation and enslavement do not exist within an historical vacuum.It is with this perspective in mind that the Antislavery Early Research Association (Antislavery ERA) was established.Conceived within the framework 1 of the 'Antislavery Usable Past' project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Antislavery ERA brings together a group of interdisciplinary graduate students and early career researchers of historic and contemporary slavery and antislavery.Representing over 40 different institutions and organisations from all over the world, the Antislavery ERA builds collaborative partnerships between scholars by employing interdisciplinary approaches to original scholarship that paves the way for the future of antislavery research.With contemporary slavery existing at the nexus of social, economic and cultural forces, it demands responsive methodologies and constantly evolving scholarship to tackle its changing nature, and the Antislavery ERA aims to meet these challenges head on.
Source: Journal of Modern slavery
Authors: Katarina Schwarz, Hannah Jeffery, Rebecca Nelson
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3008554870