It's a beautiful universe ... wondrous and the more exciting because no one has written plays and poems and built sculptures to indicate the structure of desire I negotiate every day as I move about in it.-Samuel Delany, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand The problem of power is one of the major philosophical and political preoccupations of the modern West. It is a problem which has drawn t...

This article introduces a special issue focusing upon linkages between enslavement and marriage within African societies from the 1830s to present day. The right make decisions over is one of core powers which masters have historically exercised individuals whom they enslaved. exercise this had far-reaching ramifications for lived experiences enslavement, with slaves – usually women girls being...

‘Modern slavery’ describes various forms of severe relational labour exploitation. In the realm global value chains and factories that are led by multinational enterprises, modern slavery encompasses practices such as forced debt bondage. Multinational enterprises organise orchestrate into highly adaptive to market pressures changes in external environment. We employ factory framework conceptua...