Joel Quirk
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel Quirk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel |
| FAMILY NAME | Quirk |
| SIGNATURE | QUIRK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3082-9130 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Sexual harassment in academia
Gender-based harm in higher education in South Africa
South African universities like to position themselves as bridge to a better future, drawing on an older set of ideas regarding universities as transformative agents when it comes to inculcating bo
Research as More Than Extraction
Slavery and Marriage in African Societies
This article introduces a special issue focusing upon linkages between enslavement and marriage within African societies from the 1830s to the present day. The right to make decisions over marriage is one of the core powers which masters have historically exercised over individuals whom they enslaved. The exercise of this right had far-reaching ramifications for lived experiences of enslavement, with slaves – usually women and girls – being force…
Africa and International History
The history of Africa is not a topic that has generated significant interest within International Relations (IR) circles. This is chiefly because international history tends to be read through the prism of IR theory, and theorists have prioritised questions which are closely associated with Europe, Europeans and the sovereign state. Most histories written by IR scholars have little to say about the African continent prior to the later nineteenth …
Making Johannesburg the epicentre
Johannesburg is one of the world’s great cities. It has been firmly established as Southern Africa’s main financial and economic hub for well over a century, and throughout its existence has served
Modern Slavery
Slavery, Memory and Identity
Introduction: Slavery, Memory and Identity: National Representations and Global Legacies - Douglas Hamilton, Kate Hodgson and Joel Quirk 1 'A Thoroughly National Work': The Politics of Blame and European Abolitionist Identities - Kate Hodgson 2 From Slave Quarters to Wigwams: Native American Slaveholding and the Debate Over Civilization - Natalie Joy 3 For Civilization's Sake: Legal Abolition of Slavery in Nepal and Sierra Leone in a Global Persp…
Mobility Makes States
Chapter 1. Mobility Makes States -Joel Quirk and Darshan Vigneswaran PART I: CHANNELING HUMAN MOBILITY Chapter 2. Portuguese Empire Building and Human Mobility in Sao Tome and Angola, 1400s-1700s -Filipa Ribeiro da Silva Chapter 3. Captive to Civilization: Law, Labor, and Violence in Colonial Mozambique -Eric Allina Chapter 4. Victims, Saviors, and Suspects: Channeling Mobility in Postgenocide Rwanda -Simon Turner Chapter 5. Channeling Mobility A…
Bonded labour and debt in the Indian Ocean World
This book follows on from an earlier volume by the same publisher and editorial team focusing on Debt and Slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic World (2013). In this second outing, Campbell and
Governing the world at a distance
Benchmarking practices have rapidly diffused throughout the globe in recent years. This can be traced to their popularity amongst non-state actors, such as civil society organisations and corporate actors, as well as states and international organisations (IOs). Benchmarks serve to both ‘neutralise’ and ‘universalise’ a range of overlapping normative values and agendas, including freedom of speech, democracy, human development, environmental prot…
The politics of numbers
Global benchmarks have grown exponentially over the last two decades, having been both applied to and developed by states, international organisations, corporations, and non-governmental organisations. As a consequence, global benchmarking is now firmly established as a distinct mode of transnational governance. Benchmarking chiefly involves the development of comparative metrics of performance, which typically take the form of highly stylised co…
Europeans, Africans and the Atlantic world, 1450–1850
Cross-cultural exchanges have historically taken many different forms, yet International Relations (IR) scholars have tended to focus narrowly upon a specific subset of cases associated with the history and theory of European imperialism and colonialism (e.g. Doyle 1986; Barkawi and Laffey 2002). The priority attached to European imperialism has meant that the history of cross-cultural exchange has been most commonly approached in terms of the fo…
International Orders in the Early Modern World
This chapter asks to what extent the English School concept of the ‘expansion of an European society of states’ helps us to understand early encounters between Europeans and non-Europeans on the Indian sub-continent. The chapter tests this framework through an in-depth analysis of official correspondence amongst members of the British East India Company at the founding moment of British sovereign authority on the Indian coast in the middle of the…
Defining Slavery in all its Forms
This chapter shows that there is convincing historical and legal grounds for rethinking prevailing models on slavery. It first examines the changing status of slavery under international law, where the discussion focuses on the doubts that continue to surround the legal definition of slavery and other similar forms of bondage and the 1926 and 1956 Slavery Conventions. It then shifts to a study of the ways experiences of enslavement outside the Un…
Repairing Historical Wrongs
This paper introduces a special issue of Social & Legal Studies devoted to the topic of ‘Repairing Historical Wrongs’. In recent decades, both scholars and activists have given increasing consideration to various legal and ethical obligations which can arise as a consequence of serious acts of injustice committed by previous generations and/or political regimes. Many of these efforts to repair historical wrongs pose a challenge to established mod…
Quantitative Methodological Dilemmas in Urban Refugee Research
Survey research on refugee and migrant populations can provide invaluable information, but in order to generate this information it is necessary to confront a variety of methodological challenges. It has proved particularly difficult to generate representative samples of mobile populations in developing cities, where refugees and asylum seekers attempt to ‘hide’ from surveyors, and conventional sampling frames are confounded by intractable urban …
Modern Slavery
During the period that stretched from 1770 to 1830, European empires in the Americas suffered a series of remarkable powerful blows. During this period, enslaved people consistently played pivotal roles in the shape and definition of political change. Of course, resistance to slavery was a permanent feature of slave societies in the Atlantic world and, despite the frequent claims of pro-slavery advocates, they needed neither outside instigators n…
Past Masters and Modern Inventions
In this article, we explore the relationship between past and present international relations (IR) scholarship, paying particular attention to the way in which various representations, interpretations and classifications of past works can collectively influence how modern scholars ask and answer questions. This serves two main purposes. On the one hand, we seek to contribute to a growing literature interrogating misleading and simplistic depictio…
Anti-slavery, European Identity and International Society
Anti-Sklaverei, Europäische Identität und internationale Gesellschaft: Eine makrohistorische PerspektiveAnti-Sklaverei, Europäische Identität und internationale Gesellschaft: Eine makrohistorische PerspektiveDie Entscheidung des britischen Parlaments, die britische Beteiligung am Sklavenhandel ab 1807 zu verbieten, hatte weitreichende internationale Konsequenzen. Sie beendete das jahrhundertlange britische Engagement im Sklavenhandel zur Unterstü…
Ending Slavery in all its Forms
The legal abolition of slavery is often presented as a narrative endpoint, leaving an impression that subsequent events marked a fundamental departure from the earlier status quo. This paper challenges this complacent viewpoint, developing an analytical distinction between legal abolition and effective emancipation, with the former being defined in terms of a circumscribed change in official status, and the latter encompassing an evolving series …
Trafficked into Slavery
This article takes up the evolving relationship between antislavery and human trafficking. In recent times, there has been renewed interest in issues such as people smuggling, forced labor, and, in particular, sexual servitude. These serious problems are regularly represented as a species of slavery, with trafficking being portrayed as a form of slave trading, but there has been relatively little discussion of how this connection is established, …
The construction of an edifice
Over the last decade, critical historiographers have established that the story of a First Debate, which tells of a struggle between idealism/utopianism and realism between the 1920s and 1940s, is a misleading characterisation of the history of academic international thought. This article adds to this critical literature by exploring how the story of a First Debate became a part of disciplinary orthodoxy between the 1950s and 1990s. Our analysis …
Governing the world at a distance
Benchmarking practices have rapidly diffused throughout the globe in recent years. This can be traced to their popularity amongst non-state actors, such as civil society organisations and corporate actors, as well as states and international organisations (IOs). Benchmarks serve to both ‘neutralise’ and ‘universalise’ a range of overlapping normative values and agendas, including freedom of speech, democracy, human development, environmental prot…
International Orders in the Early Modern World
This chapter asks to what extent the English School concept of the ‘expansion of an European society of states’ helps us to understand early encounters between Europeans and non-Europeans on the Indian sub-continent. The chapter tests this framework through an in-depth analysis of official correspondence amongst members of the British East India Company at the founding moment of British sovereign authority on the Indian coast in the middle of the…
Mobility Makes States
Chapter 1. Mobility Makes States -Joel Quirk and Darshan Vigneswaran PART I: CHANNELING HUMAN MOBILITY Chapter 2. Portuguese Empire Building and Human Mobility in Sao Tome and Angola, 1400s-1700s -Filipa Ribeiro da Silva Chapter 3. Captive to Civilization: Law, Labor, and Violence in Colonial Mozambique -Eric Allina Chapter 4. Victims, Saviors, and Suspects: Channeling Mobility in Postgenocide Rwanda -Simon Turner Chapter 5. Channeling Mobility A…
The politics of numbers
Global benchmarks have grown exponentially over the last two decades, having been both applied to and developed by states, international organisations, corporations, and non-governmental organisations. As a consequence, global benchmarking is now firmly established as a distinct mode of transnational governance. Benchmarking chiefly involves the development of comparative metrics of performance, which typically take the form of highly stylised co…
The construction of an edifice
Over the last decade, critical historiographers have established that the story of a First Debate, which tells of a struggle between idealism/utopianism and realism between the 1920s and 1940s, is a misleading characterisation of the history of academic international thought. This article adds to this critical literature by exploring how the story of a First Debate became a part of disciplinary orthodoxy between the 1950s and 1990s. Our analysis …
Trafficked into Slavery
This article takes up the evolving relationship between antislavery and human trafficking. In recent times, there has been renewed interest in issues such as people smuggling, forced labor, and, in particular, sexual servitude. These serious problems are regularly represented as a species of slavery, with trafficking being portrayed as a form of slave trading, but there has been relatively little discussion of how this connection is established, …
Anti-slavery, European Identity and International Society
Anti-Sklaverei, Europäische Identität und internationale Gesellschaft: Eine makrohistorische PerspektiveAnti-Sklaverei, Europäische Identität und internationale Gesellschaft: Eine makrohistorische PerspektiveDie Entscheidung des britischen Parlaments, die britische Beteiligung am Sklavenhandel ab 1807 zu verbieten, hatte weitreichende internationale Konsequenzen. Sie beendete das jahrhundertlange britische Engagement im Sklavenhandel zur Unterstü…
Ending Slavery in all its Forms
The legal abolition of slavery is often presented as a narrative endpoint, leaving an impression that subsequent events marked a fundamental departure from the earlier status quo. This paper challenges this complacent viewpoint, developing an analytical distinction between legal abolition and effective emancipation, with the former being defined in terms of a circumscribed change in official status, and the latter encompassing an evolving series …
Slavery and Marriage in African Societies
This article introduces a special issue focusing upon linkages between enslavement and marriage within African societies from the 1830s to the present day. The right to make decisions over marriage is one of the core powers which masters have historically exercised over individuals whom they enslaved. The exercise of this right had far-reaching ramifications for lived experiences of enslavement, with slaves – usually women and girls – being force…
Quantitative Methodological Dilemmas in Urban Refugee Research
Survey research on refugee and migrant populations can provide invaluable information, but in order to generate this information it is necessary to confront a variety of methodological challenges. It has proved particularly difficult to generate representative samples of mobile populations in developing cities, where refugees and asylum seekers attempt to ‘hide’ from surveyors, and conventional sampling frames are confounded by intractable urban …
Past Masters and Modern Inventions
In this article, we explore the relationship between past and present international relations (IR) scholarship, paying particular attention to the way in which various representations, interpretations and classifications of past works can collectively influence how modern scholars ask and answer questions. This serves two main purposes. On the one hand, we seek to contribute to a growing literature interrogating misleading and simplistic depictio…
Repairing Historical Wrongs
This paper introduces a special issue of Social & Legal Studies devoted to the topic of ‘Repairing Historical Wrongs’. In recent decades, both scholars and activists have given increasing consideration to various legal and ethical obligations which can arise as a consequence of serious acts of injustice committed by previous generations and/or political regimes. Many of these efforts to repair historical wrongs pose a challenge to established mod…
The construction of an edifice
Over the last decade, critical historiographers have established that the story of a First Debate, which tells of a struggle between idealism/utopianism and realism between the 1920s and 1940s, is a misleading characterisation of the history of academic international thought. This article adds to this critical literature by exploring how the story of a First Debate became a part of disciplinary orthodoxy between the 1950s and 1990s. Our analysis …
Trafficked into Slavery
This article takes up the evolving relationship between antislavery and human trafficking. In recent times, there has been renewed interest in issues such as people smuggling, forced labor, and, in particular, sexual servitude. These serious problems are regularly represented as a species of slavery, with trafficking being portrayed as a form of slave trading, but there has been relatively little discussion of how this connection is established, …
Ending Slavery in all its Forms
The legal abolition of slavery is often presented as a narrative endpoint, leaving an impression that subsequent events marked a fundamental departure from the earlier status quo. This paper challenges this complacent viewpoint, developing an analytical distinction between legal abolition and effective emancipation, with the former being defined in terms of a circumscribed change in official status, and the latter encompassing an evolving series …
Anti-slavery, European Identity and International Society
Anti-Sklaverei, Europäische Identität und internationale Gesellschaft: Eine makrohistorische PerspektiveAnti-Sklaverei, Europäische Identität und internationale Gesellschaft: Eine makrohistorische PerspektiveDie Entscheidung des britischen Parlaments, die britische Beteiligung am Sklavenhandel ab 1807 zu verbieten, hatte weitreichende internationale Konsequenzen. Sie beendete das jahrhundertlange britische Engagement im Sklavenhandel zur Unterstü…
Modern Slavery
During the period that stretched from 1770 to 1830, European empires in the Americas suffered a series of remarkable powerful blows. During this period, enslaved people consistently played pivotal roles in the shape and definition of political change. Of course, resistance to slavery was a permanent feature of slave societies in the Atlantic world and, despite the frequent claims of pro-slavery advocates, they needed neither outside instigators n…
Past Masters and Modern Inventions
In this article, we explore the relationship between past and present international relations (IR) scholarship, paying particular attention to the way in which various representations, interpretations and classifications of past works can collectively influence how modern scholars ask and answer questions. This serves two main purposes. On the one hand, we seek to contribute to a growing literature interrogating misleading and simplistic depictio…
Defining Slavery in all its Forms
This chapter shows that there is convincing historical and legal grounds for rethinking prevailing models on slavery. It first examines the changing status of slavery under international law, where the discussion focuses on the doubts that continue to surround the legal definition of slavery and other similar forms of bondage and the 1926 and 1956 Slavery Conventions. It then shifts to a study of the ways experiences of enslavement outside the Un…
Repairing Historical Wrongs
This paper introduces a special issue of Social & Legal Studies devoted to the topic of ‘Repairing Historical Wrongs’. In recent decades, both scholars and activists have given increasing consideration to various legal and ethical obligations which can arise as a consequence of serious acts of injustice committed by previous generations and/or political regimes. Many of these efforts to repair historical wrongs pose a challenge to established mod…
Quantitative Methodological Dilemmas in Urban Refugee Research
Survey research on refugee and migrant populations can provide invaluable information, but in order to generate this information it is necessary to confront a variety of methodological challenges. It has proved particularly difficult to generate representative samples of mobile populations in developing cities, where refugees and asylum seekers attempt to ‘hide’ from surveyors, and conventional sampling frames are confounded by intractable urban …
Europeans, Africans and the Atlantic world, 1450–1850
Cross-cultural exchanges have historically taken many different forms, yet International Relations (IR) scholars have tended to focus narrowly upon a specific subset of cases associated with the history and theory of European imperialism and colonialism (e.g. Doyle 1986; Barkawi and Laffey 2002). The priority attached to European imperialism has meant that the history of cross-cultural exchange has been most commonly approached in terms of the fo…
International Orders in the Early Modern World
This chapter asks to what extent the English School concept of the ‘expansion of an European society of states’ helps us to understand early encounters between Europeans and non-Europeans on the Indian sub-continent. The chapter tests this framework through an in-depth analysis of official correspondence amongst members of the British East India Company at the founding moment of British sovereign authority on the Indian coast in the middle of the…
Modern Slavery
Slavery, Memory and Identity
Introduction: Slavery, Memory and Identity: National Representations and Global Legacies - Douglas Hamilton, Kate Hodgson and Joel Quirk 1 'A Thoroughly National Work': The Politics of Blame and European Abolitionist Identities - Kate Hodgson 2 From Slave Quarters to Wigwams: Native American Slaveholding and the Debate Over Civilization - Natalie Joy 3 For Civilization's Sake: Legal Abolition of Slavery in Nepal and Sierra Leone in a Global Persp…
Mobility Makes States
Chapter 1. Mobility Makes States -Joel Quirk and Darshan Vigneswaran PART I: CHANNELING HUMAN MOBILITY Chapter 2. Portuguese Empire Building and Human Mobility in Sao Tome and Angola, 1400s-1700s -Filipa Ribeiro da Silva Chapter 3. Captive to Civilization: Law, Labor, and Violence in Colonial Mozambique -Eric Allina Chapter 4. Victims, Saviors, and Suspects: Channeling Mobility in Postgenocide Rwanda -Simon Turner Chapter 5. Channeling Mobility A…
Bonded labour and debt in the Indian Ocean World
This book follows on from an earlier volume by the same publisher and editorial team focusing on Debt and Slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic World (2013). In this second outing, Campbell and
Governing the world at a distance
Benchmarking practices have rapidly diffused throughout the globe in recent years. This can be traced to their popularity amongst non-state actors, such as civil society organisations and corporate actors, as well as states and international organisations (IOs). Benchmarks serve to both ‘neutralise’ and ‘universalise’ a range of overlapping normative values and agendas, including freedom of speech, democracy, human development, environmental prot…
The politics of numbers
Global benchmarks have grown exponentially over the last two decades, having been both applied to and developed by states, international organisations, corporations, and non-governmental organisations. As a consequence, global benchmarking is now firmly established as a distinct mode of transnational governance. Benchmarking chiefly involves the development of comparative metrics of performance, which typically take the form of highly stylised co…
Africa and International History
The history of Africa is not a topic that has generated significant interest within International Relations (IR) circles. This is chiefly because international history tends to be read through the prism of IR theory, and theorists have prioritised questions which are closely associated with Europe, Europeans and the sovereign state. Most histories written by IR scholars have little to say about the African continent prior to the later nineteenth …
Making Johannesburg the epicentre
Johannesburg is one of the world’s great cities. It has been firmly established as Southern Africa’s main financial and economic hub for well over a century, and throughout its existence has served
Slavery and Marriage in African Societies
This article introduces a special issue focusing upon linkages between enslavement and marriage within African societies from the 1830s to the present day. The right to make decisions over marriage is one of the core powers which masters have historically exercised over individuals whom they enslaved. The exercise of this right had far-reaching ramifications for lived experiences of enslavement, with slaves – usually women and girls – being force…
Research as More Than Extraction
Gender-based harm in higher education in South Africa
South African universities like to position themselves as bridge to a better future, drawing on an older set of ideas regarding universities as transformative agents when it comes to inculcating bo
Sexual harassment in academia
Political science (17 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · History (8 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works)