Objetivo Contemporary antislavery campaigners invoke the history of Atlantic World slavery to highlight the plight of 48 million people today living in exceptionally harsh circumstances, described as ‘modern slavery’. Yet in a world where many are oppressed and exploited, the lines between ‘modern slavery’ and other forms of drudgery, exclusion, and domination, are not easily drawn. Critics argue that the dominant discourse of ‘modern slavery’ relies upon a highly selective vision of injustice and suffering, and fails to consider or challenge the structural inequalities and systems of domination (race, caste, class, gender, age, nationality) that routinely restrict rights and freedoms. The proposed project retains a concern with the continuing significance of Atlantic World history, but upturns conventional discourse by interrogating the problem of freedom – as opposed to slavery - in the contemporary world. Through fieldwork in Brazil, Ghana, Italy, Portugal and the UK with groups that appear in dominant discourse as at risk of ‘modern slavery’, its key aims are: i) to revisit histories of marronage and other strategies by which enslaved and newly emancipated people sought to move closer to freedom in the Atlantic World historically, and ask what light they can shed on the perception, pursuit and practice of freedom by marginalized and rightless people in the Atlantic World today; ii) to use insights from this dialogue between past and present to contribute to theoretical debates on freedom, and its relation to agency, honour, gender, age, race, mobility, property, and personhood; iii) to work with research participants to co-produce counter-narratives to conventional antislavery stories of ‘modern slavery’, and, by communicating them through performance as well as text, encourage more nuanced popular and political debate on the contemporary meaning and practice of freedom. Ámbito científico social scienceslawhuman rightshuman rights violationshuman traffickingsocial sciencessociologysocial issuessocial inequalitiesracial inequality Programa(s) H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Tema(s) ERC-2017-ADG - ERC Advanced Grant Convocatoria de propuestas ERC-2017-ADG Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoria Régimen de financiación ERC-ADG - Advanced Grant Institución de acogida UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL Aportación neta de la UEn € 1 847 596,00 Dirección BEACON HOUSE QUEENS ROAD BS8 1QU Bristol Reino Unido Ver en el mapa Región South West (England) Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area Bristol, City of Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Participación en los programas de I+D de la UE Opens in new window Red de colaboración de HORIZON Opens in new window Coste total € 1 847 596,00 Beneficiarios (2) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación neta de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL Reino Unido Aportación neta de la UEn € 1 847 596,00 Dirección BEACON HOUSE QUEENS ROAD BS8 1QU Bristol Ver en el mapa Región South West (England) Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area Bristol, City of Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Participación en los programas de I+D de la UE Opens in new window Red de colaboración de HORIZON Opens in new window Coste total € 1 847 596,00 THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM La participación finalizó Reino Unido Aportación neta de la UEn € 0,00 Dirección University Park NG7 2RD Nottingham Ver en el mapa Región East Midlands (England) Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Nottingham Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Participación en los programas de I+D de la UE Opens in new window Red de colaboración de HORIZON Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos