Joel Quirk is Professor in Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. His research focuses upon slavery and abolition, human mobility and human rights, repairing historical wrongs, and the history and politics of sub-Saharan Africa. Joel is currently a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project, where he serves as Rapporteur. Your can follow him on twitter at @joelquirk.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryHuman trafficking and Africa’s ‘pornography of pain’: the pitfalls of CSRLexisNexis South Africa has mined its newspaper archives to produce a deeply flawed ‘human trafficking awareness...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRace, ethnicity and belongingRace is, ironically, an often-overlooked aspect of the modern slavery debate. BTS editors look critically at the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryReparations are too confronting: let’s talk about 'modern-day slavery' insteadGovernments and activists in Europe and America invoke the immediacy of “modern-day slavery” to sidestep challenging...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe use and abuse of history: slavery and its contemporary legaciesBeyond Trafficking and Slavery editors introduce their issue 'On History', which challenges the superficial...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe politics of numbers: the Global Slavery Index and the marketplace of activismThe Global Slavery Index is profoundly flawed methodologically, yet it remains widely and often uncritically cited....
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe rhetoric and reality of ‘ending slavery in our lifetime’‘Modern-day abolitionists’ frame their activities as part of a shared global struggle, but there is no single...