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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryMy own private basic income
One person’s experience becoming a business owner shows how our economy is based on luck rather than merit and how...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIs it utopian to argue for open borders?
Thousands of migrants in Europe are prisoners of border controls. They ask, 'are we not human?' Is it utopian to...
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Published in: Home‘Utopia for Realists?’ - a review
‘If we can get enough people to read this, the world will start to become a better place’. High praise indeed. But...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryStopping the border deaths: towards freedom of migration for all
Deaths at international borders are one of humanity’s gravest failures in recent history. The ideas of open borders...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe inseparability of capitalism, racism, and imprisonment: an interview with Dennis Childs
The prison industrial complex and the mass incarceration of people of colour in America are the children of chattel...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySex work, utopia, and what we can learn from prison abolitionism
Groups calling for the abolition of prostitution are not, despite what they might think, following in the best...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryConfronting the brutal reality: how to teach the legacy of transatlantic slavery
The British curriculum sanitises the history of slavery by isolating it as an aberration of evil. Slavery built the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBlack ‘archival’ pain: the blurring of Black pasts and a Black present
Incessant Black death across American ‘history’ reveals an open-ended archive of anti-Black state violence. Black...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe purposes and powers of utopia
Neoliberalism is a utopian vision based on a ‘world without poverty’. What if we imagine a world in which the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryMoral economy: a different way of thinking about the future
The current economic system has ‘wealth extraction’ masquerading as ‘wealth creation’ to the long-term detriment of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe practical necessity of utopian thinking
BTS editors introduce their series on utopia, arguing that only by striving for utopia can we hope to move beyond...