Over the past decade, a fourth abolitionist movement for the eradication of
human trafficking and slavery has swept the globe. Scholars, donors and
advocates have emphasized that slavery is the control of one person over
another, through various means, for the purpose of economic exploitation. Most
attention in this process has focused on victims and survivors. Less attention has
been paid to those wielding control: the traffickers, slaveholders and middlemen
involved in the procurement and exploitation that constitutes slavery and
trafficking. Who are the perpetrators? Are they primarily men or women or
corporations? Do they think of themselves as perpetrators or as something else?
Should this self-perception impact policy and rights interventions?
We welcome original theoretical and empirical contributions on slaveholders and
traffickers that address this gap in our knowledge. Submissions may include (but
are not limited to):
• Frameworks for conceptualizing traffickers and slaveholders
• Restructuring financial and cultural incentives for perpetrators
• Corporate and individual perpetrators
• Contemporary emancipation and abolition approaches to perpetrators
• Contemporary policy assumptions about perpetrators
• The role of gender in the enslavement process
• Perpetrators’ response to emancipation efforts
• Structural and cultural factors related to perpetrator behavior
• Media treatment of perpetrators
• Masculinity and patriarchy
• Corporate responsibility
Special Issue Editor: Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Central European University
Deadline: April 3, 2015
Submissions to: Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
Assistant Professor of Political Sociology
School of Public Policy
Central European University
choifitza@ceu.hu
Guidelines: (9,000 words, 200 word abstract, APA citation)
www.tandfonline.com/action/.U4pWeV7UhYg

Guest Editor: Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick