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"The Triangular Trade" diagram at Wilberforce House Museum. Photo taken by author (April 2019). Courtesy of Hull Culture and Leisure Ltd.
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In 2007 several permanent museum galleries were created in England that discuss the subject of the transatlantic slave trade and slavery. This article critiques one recurring image within many of these sites: the diagrams of the slave trade triangle. Drawing on analyses of the slave trade by historians, from Eric Williams to recent contributions, a...
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... failure to clearly illustrate where enslaved people were taken to and labouring, is visible within the simple triangle at the Museum of London Docklands, where the sole destination of the arrow from Africa is the Caribbean. At Wilberforce House Museum the arrow goes over the historical colony of British Guiana in northern South America -where the labelled dot marking "enslaved Africans" falls -but again the arrow appears to terminate in the Caribbean (Figure 5). While the arrow from Britain does split to suggest three destinations in West Africa, there is only one destination indicated in the Americas -"The Caribbean Islands." ...
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This book calls for more holistic place-based action to address the social and environmental crisis, deploying the Deep Place approach as one contribution to the toolbox of actions that will underpin the UN Decade of Action towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
The authors suggest that ‘place’ is a critical window on how to conceive a resolution to the multiple and overlapping crises. As well as diagnosing the problem (the world as it is), this book also offers a normative advocacy (the world as it could/should be and proposed pathways to get there). A series of ‘Deep Place’ case studies from the UK, Australia, and Vanuatu help to illustrate this approach. Ultimately, the book argues for the need for a real and green ‘new deal’ and identifies what this should be like. It suggests that a new economic order, whilst eventually inevitable, requires radical change. This will not be easy but will be essential given the current impasse, caused, not least by the conjunction of carbon-based, neoliberal capitalism in crisis and the multifactorial global ecological crisis. Ultimately, it concludes that there is a need to develop a new model of ‘regenerative collectivism’ to overcome these crises.
This book will be of interest to academics, policy practitioners, and social and climate justice advocates/activists.
