Contemporary Slavery - The Rhetoric of Global Human Rights Campaigns

Klappentext Annie Bunting is Associate Professor of Law and Society at York University and Deputy Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and Its Diasporas. Joel Quirk is Professor of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. Zusammenfassung 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 performances. However well-intentioned these interventions might be! they nonetheless remain subject to a...

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• Authors: Annie Bunting, Annie (EDT)/ Quirk Bunting, Annie Quirk Bunting
• Assisted by: Annie Bunting (Editor), Joel Quirk (Editor)
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781501718762
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-1876-2
• No. of pages: 396
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law