Antislavery Knowledge Network: GCRF Network + Call for Proposals What is the Antislavery Knowledge Network (AKN)? The Antislavery Knowledge Network (AKN), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of its Network Plus call under the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), offers the first extended effort to address slavery as a core development challenge in sub-Saharan Africa via innovative approaches from the arts and humanities that deliver community-engaged antislavery work. Focusing on the idea of activated community memory, the project champions the use of arts and humanities as a resource for social change. One of the core aims of the network is to explore the ways in which participatory arts-based strategies, rooted in heritage and memory, can empower Global South communities to play a central role in tackling contemporary slavery. If you have any questions about the network or the grants available, then please email us at Context AKN is committed to rethinking the antislavery approach in the five geographic regions of the African Union, where, 9.2 million people are enslaved. Development policies aimed at African states have too often ignored the complex historical backdrop and cultures of mobility that link past and present slaveries, and have failed to foster community antislavery strategies that draw on heritage and memory. At the same time, many antislavery efforts impose a law enforcement paradigm that prioritises the reduction of mobility in Africa, and
Antislavery Knowledge Network: GCRF Network + Call for Proposals What is the Antislavery Knowledge Network (AKN)? The Antislavery Knowledge Network (AKN), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of its Network Plus call under the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), offers the first extended effort to address slavery as a core development challenge in sub-Saharan Africa via innovative approaches from the arts and humanities that deliver community-engaged antislavery work. Focusing on the idea of activated community memory, the project champions the use of arts and humanities as a resource for social change. One of the core aims of the network is to explore the ways in which participatory arts-based strategies, rooted in heritage and memory, can empower Global South communities to play a central role in tackling contemporary slavery. If you have any questions about the network or the grants available, then please email us at Context AKN is committed to rethinking the antislavery approach in the five geographic regions of the African Union, where, 9.2 million people are enslaved. Development policies aimed at African states have too often ignored the complex historical backdrop and cultures of mobility that link past and present slaveries, and have failed to foster community antislavery strategies that draw on heritage and memory. At the same time, many antislavery efforts impose a law enforcement paradigm that prioritises the reduction of mobility in Africa, and
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