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DESCRIPTION:Conférence de la série Esclavage et Exploitation à Travers les 
 Âges avec le professeur Joel Quirk\, University of the Witwatersrand.\n\nR
 ésumé\n\n(En anglais seulement) Combating human trafficking has been widel
 y presented as a cohesive and singular global cause\, which builds upon th
 e noble work of ‘modern-day abolitionists’ seeking to finally end slavery 
 once and for all. The main argument of this paper is that this popular rhe
 toric of shared global struggle is both highly misleading and politically 
 problematic. In its current incarnation\, ‘the cause’ of ending human traf
 ficking and ‘modern-day slavery’ brings together two major elements: i) an
  increasingly dense regime of law and policy which is universal in scope y
 et shallow and selective when it comes to effective application\, and ii) 
 a diverse portfolio of more substantive political interventions which tend
  to heavily concentrate upon specific locations and industries. These case
 -specific interventions often have little or no direct connection to paral
 lel interventions taking place in other parts of the world. There may well
  be broad similarities in the types of abuses which occur in different con
 texts and countries\, but a great deal of a creative aggregation and extra
 polation is required in order to translate broad similarities into the lan
 guage of a singular and cohesive global cause. Once we puncture this ficti
 ve coherence\, it quickly becomes clear that there is not one global anti-
 trafficking or anti-slavery movement\, but many different movements and ac
 tors with different agendas and interests\, most of which primarily focus 
 upon specific issues and/or localised concerns. In stark contrast to histo
 rical campaigns to end legal slavery\, which were firmly aimed at the prof
 its and privileges of the rich and powerful\, most of these interventions 
 only rarely pose a direct threat to major political and economic interests
 \, which is ultimately a key source of their appeal.\n\nLe conférencier\n
 \n(En anglais seulement)  Joel Quirk is Associate Professor in the Departm
 ent of Political Studies\, University of the Witwatersrand. His research f
 ocuses on slavery and abolition\, human mobility and human rights\, repair
 ing historical wrongs\, and history and politics of sub-Saharan Africa. Re
 cent works include The Anti-Slavery Project(Penn\, 2011)\, International O
 rders in the Early Modern World (Routledge\, 2014\, co-edited)\, Mobility 
 Makes States (Penn\, 2015\, co-edited)\, and The Invention of Contemporary
  Slavery (UBC\, in press\, co-edited). He has also recently co-edited spec
 ial issues/sections on Repairing Historical Wrongs (Social & Legal Studies
 \, 2012)\, Sampling Techniques in Johannesburg (Journal of Refugee Studies
 \, 2012) and the Politics of Numbers (Review of International Studies\, 20
 15). Joel is a current member of the International Scientific Committee of
  the UNESCO Slave Route Project\, where he serves as Rapporteur\, and is a
 lso an editor for openDemocracy’s ‘Beyond Trafficking and Slavery’ (opende
 mocracy.net/beyondslavery).\n\nLa série\n\n(En anglais seulement) Slavery 
 Old and New is a joint research initiative which examines the legal concep
 tualization of labour exploitation. Through an interdisciplinary\, transna
 tional and historical methodology\, this project draws on a variety of dis
 ciplines\, spaces in time\, and places around the world\, to explore law’s
  understanding of “labour exploitation” and its relationship to society an
 d practices.\n
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LOCATION:Salle 107 (vidéo-conférence)\, Burnside Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\
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SUMMARY:The Fictive Coherence of Global Struggle: Combating ‘Modern-Day Sla
 very’ in Rhetoric and Practice
URL:/law/fr/channels/event/fictive-coherence-global-st
 ruggle-combating-modern-day-slavery-rhetoric-and-practice-255443
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