"Freedom through marketing" is not doublespeak

The articles comprising this thematic symposium suggest options for exploring the nexus between freedom and unfreedom, as exemplified by the British abolitionists’ anti-slavery campaign and the paradox of freedom. Each article has implications for how these abolitionists achieved their goals, social...

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Authors: Shabbir, Haseeb (Author) ; Hyman, Michael R. (Author) ; Dean, Dianne (Author) ; Dahl, Stephan 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer 2020
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2020, Volume: 164, Issue: 2, Pages: 227-241
Further subjects:B Ethical blindness
B Transatlantic slave trade
B Reparations
B Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
B Mystification
B Human Trafficking
B Anti-slavery campaigns
B Paradox of freedom
B Abolition
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Summary:The articles comprising this thematic symposium suggest options for exploring the nexus between freedom and unfreedom, as exemplified by the British abolitionists’ anti-slavery campaign and the paradox of freedom. Each article has implications for how these abolitionists achieved their goals, social activists’ efforts to secure reparations for slave ancestors, and modern slavery (e.g., human trafficking). We present the abolitionists’ undertaking as a marketing campaign, highlighting the role of instilling moral agency and indignation through re-humanizing the dehumanized. Despite this campaign’s eventual success, its post-emancipation phase illustrates a paradox of freedom. After introducing mystification as an explanation for the obscuring rhetoric used to conceal post-emancipation violations of freedom during the West’s colonial phase, we briefly discuss the appropriateness of reparations. Finally, we discuss the contributions made by the articles in this thematic symposium.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-019-04281-x