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Europe's long history of extracting African renewable energy: Contexts for African scientists, technologists, innovators and policy-makers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Kate B. Showers --- Centre for World Environmental History, United KingdomHaving failed to identify local energy supplies compliant with Kyoto Protocol obligations, the EU turned to Africa in the 21st C. According to definition, the term ‘renewable energy’ source equally describes slaves, forests and rivers. Environmental history analysis demonstrates the... -
Yvette Christiansë's Oceanic Genealogies and the Colonial Archive: Castaways and Generations from Eastern Africa to the South Atlantic
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Meg Samuelson --- Department of English, South AfricaThis article traces tropes of dispersal and continuity in Yvette Christiansë oeuvre as it performs a genealogical enquiry through oceanic spaces and in and out of the colonial archive. Revolving respectively around St Helena and the Cape, both the poetry... -
Edgy Edgars: The Restless Youth in Suzanna Nelson's Nightmare along the River Nile: A Story of Twentieth Century Slavery
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Paul M. Mukundi --- Department of Literature, KenyaSuzanna E. Nelson's first novel, Nightmare along the River Nile: A Story of Twentieth Century Slavery shows the danger faced by youth during war. While the young adult stage of life is generally characterized by unsteadiness—social, professional and otherwise—because individuals... -
Slavery, neo-slavery and business ethics
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Hospitality Studies, Academy of International Hospitality Research, The NetherlandsDespite the campaigns of the 19th century, there are currently millions of people that are enslaved across the globe. Some of these slaves are directly engaged in the hospitality sector, in other cases they are indirectly associated with the hospitality... -
Neo-liberalism and neo-slavery
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Hospitality Studies, Academy of International Hospitality Research, The NetherlandsLow pay and other minimal benefits at work cause some people to be in a state of neo-slavery. They are nominally free individuals and are not the property of others, but their economic standing and power is so limited that... -
Between globalisation and Brexit: Migration, pay and the road to modern slavery in the UK hospitality industry
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Steve French --- Institute for Social Inclusion, United KingdomNeo-liberal economic globalisation has promoted deregulation and a weakening of the role of the state in regulating the national economy. The perceived benefits of competition have been used to justify strategies to reduce operational costs and promote a “race to...