LEADER 03941nam 2200541 450 001 9910828561403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-54382-4 024 7 $a10.7312/choi18182 035 $a(CKB)3710000001023713 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4784113 035 $a(DE-B1597)480288 035 $a(OCoLC)958371493 035 $a(OCoLC)979904366 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231543828 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4784113 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11331380 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL989465 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001023713 100 $a20170130h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aWhat slaveholders think $ehow contemporary perpetrators rationalize what they do /$fAustin Choi-Fitzpatrick 210 1$aNew York, [New York] :$cColumbia University Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (243 pages) 311 $a0-231-18182-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1. In All Its Forms: Slavery and Abolition, Movements and Targets -- $t2. Best-Laid Plans: A Partial Theory of Social Movement Targets -- $t3. Just Like Family: Slaveholders on Slavery -- $t4. As If We Are Equal: Slaveholders on Emancipation -- $t5. The Farmer in the Middle: Target Response to Threats -- $t6. Private Wrongs: Slavery and Antislavery in Contemporary India -- $t7. Long Goodbye: The Contemporary Antislavery Movement -- $t8. Between Good and Evil: The Everyday Ethics of Resources and Reappraisal -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aDrawing on fifteen years of work in the antislavery movement, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick examines the systematic oppression of men, women, and children in rural India and asks: How do contemporary slaveholders rationalize the subjugation of other human beings, and how do they respond when their power is threatened? More than a billion dollars have been spent on antislavery efforts, yet the practice persists. Why? Unpacking what slaveholders think about emancipation is critical for scholars and policy makers who want to understand the broader context, especially as seen by the powerful. Insight into those moments when the powerful either double down or back off provides a sobering counterbalance to scholarship on popular struggle. Through frank and unprecedented conversations with slaveholders, Choi-Fitzpatrick reveals the condescending and paternalistic thought processes that blind them. While they understand they are exploiting workers' vulnerabilities, slaveholders also feel they are doing workers a favor, often taking pride in this relationship. And when the victims share this perspective, their emancipation is harder to secure, driving some in the antislavery movement to ask why slaves fear freedom. The answer, Choi-Fitzpatrick convincingly argues, lies in the power relationship. Whether slaveholders recoil at their past behavior or plot a return to power, Choi-Fitzpatrick zeroes in on the relational dynamics of their self-assessment, unpacking what happens next. Incorporating the experiences of such pivotal actors into antislavery research is an immensely important step toward crafting effective antislavery policies and intervention. It also contributes to scholarship on social change, social movements, and the realization of human rights. 606 $aSlavery$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aHuman trafficking 606 $aForced labor 615 0$aSlavery$xHistory 615 0$aHuman trafficking. 615 0$aForced labor. 676 $a306.3/620905 700 $aChoi-Fitzpatrick$b Austin$01189999 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828561403321 996 $aWhat slaveholders think$94006215 997 $aUNINA