What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do

Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick

Published by Columbia University Press 2017

What Slaveholders Think

How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do

Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick

https://doi.org/10.7312/choi18182

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About this book

Rare interviews with contemporary slaveholders reveal how they justify their actions and resist challenges to their authority.

Author / Editor information

Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick is assistant professor of political sociology at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego. He is the coeditor of From Human Trafficking to Human Rights: Reframing Contemporary Slavery (2012), and his work has appeared in the Journal of Human Rights, Social Movement Studies, the Columbia Journal of International Affairs, Social Problems, and the Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior. All royalties from this book will be donated to Free the Slaves and Anti-Slavery International.

Reviews

Zoe Trodd, University of Nottingham:
Choi-Fitzpatrick reinvigorates the theory and practice of representing slavery and related systems of domination, in particular our understandings of the binaries between slavery and freedom, victims and perpetrators. Incisive and stimulating, this is a stellar work of scholarship that demands of the academy—and human rights campaigners—a marked shift in direction.

Doug McAdam, Stanford University:
The exponential growth of social movement studies has yielded a rich and varied portrait of movements and movement groups. By contrast, we know little about movement targets. In this important book, Choi-Fitzpatrick not only reverses this emphasis, but offers the beginnings of a theory of how targets respond to movement pressure. And what is the data on which his theory is based? Nothing less than in-depth interviews with slaveholders targeted by contemporary anti-slavery groups. It would be hard to imagine a more original or significant contribution to the field than What Slaveholders Think.

Kevin Bales, cofounder of Free the Slaves:
A much-needed and unique work. Our understanding of modern slavery holds virtually nothing on slaveholders. Such a study has always been seen as the Holy Grail, truly critical knowledge if we are to move forward, but always outside our ability to grasp. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick also goes somewhere that few scholars in this area have gone—raising important, challenging questions about how slaveholders might be understood and rehabilitated.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
1. In All Its Forms: Slavery and Abolition, Movements and Targets Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Best-Laid Plans: A Partial Theory of Social Movement Targets Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
3. Just Like Family: Slaveholders on Slavery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
4. As If We Are Equal: Slaveholders on Emancipation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
5. The Farmer in the Middle: Target Response to Threats Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
6. Private Wrongs: Slavery and Antislavery in Contemporary India Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
7. Long Goodbye: The Contemporary Antislavery Movement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
8. Between Good and Evil: The Everyday Ethics of Resources and Reappraisal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
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Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 248

eBook

Published: March 6, 2017
ISBN: 9780231543828