Laura Brace
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 645354 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Laura Brace |
| PRENOMES | Laura |
| SOBRENOME | Brace |
| ASSINATURA | BRACE L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0835-7448 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
My debts haunt me like furies
By analysing Mary Wollstonecraft's personal letters to her friends, her siblings and her lover, this article finds new ways of exploring how property informs her ideas about freedom and independence, and of connecting her ideas to our present. Her personal letters allow us to start a new conversation with Wollstonecraft, and to rethink the intimate connections between ideas and lives which have been so contested in past interpretations of her pol…
The Monies will not Answer
This paper explores the writing, and lives, of two women, Wollstonecraft and the contemporary writer Catrina Davies. It focuses on their experience of trying to live independent, creative and worthwhile lives under social and economic conditions of precarity and debt which curtail their aspirations to freedom. Wollstonecraft’s critique of property relations and of commercial society echoes through Davies’s experience of navigating the current hou…
The Politics of Property
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748615353);The concept of property is central to political thought and crucial to understanding the ideas of key political thinkers. This book provides an up-to-date analysis of the idea, taking into account current debates about gender, slavery and colonialism, and introducing property as a contested concept in debates between thinkers, across ideologies and in political practice.Analysing key debates in th…
Fallacies of hope
This article explores the risks and dangers of redemptive readings of JMW Turner’s (in)famous 1840 painting, Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying – Typhon Coming on) that assume that we cannot be complicit in anything other than abolition and deliberately forget and disavow the underlying structures and continuing dispossessions of slave racial capitalism. The paper reads the painting as an intervention in an important set of…
The Politics of Slavery
This book asks what it means to describe someone as a slave and explores the political dimensions of that question. It argues against the search for a transhistorical and timeless definition of slavery, and offers a critical interrogation of the dominant liberal discourse on slavery from the Enlightenment to the present. It pays particular attention to the meanings of the slavery / freedom binary and to the connections between the past and the pr…
The Politics of Slavery
Critically interrogates the history and politics of slavery, from classical Greek philosophy to today What makes a slave a slave? What does it mean to think about slavery as a political question? This book examines slavery and freedom as founding narratives of the liberal subject and of modernity. Laura Brace asks what happens when we try to bring slaves back into history, and into the history of political thought in particular. Looking at schola…
The Subjection of Women
This chapter focuses on gender and slavery, and in particular on the rhetoric of thinking about wives as slaves in both the pre and post abolition contexts, and in the different and parallel conversations about empire that went on through the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the process of transforming humanity into moral beings, gender as a register of difference played out in complex ways that troubled the concept of personhood as a…
Locke and Hutcheson
This chapter focuses on Locke, and on the question of how we give slavery a history and think about it as a political relation. It investigates the colonial reading of Locke, his personal involvement in the slave trade and the connections between slavery and civil society. It argues that Locke’s justification of limited slavery needs to be linked to his view of civil society and the state of nature. This helps to explain the Carolinian context of…
Unparalleled Drudgery and the Deprivation of Freedom
This book insists on the connections between freedom, belonging and labour for understanding the politics of slavery. This chapter seeks to show how constructions of race and labour were inextricable from one another, and how thinking about slavery as a labour system is inseparable from understanding freedom as a contested concept, forged out of experience and struggle. Part of that struggle was about trying to find and define the limits of ensla…
Shining a Light on Slavery?
This chapter introduces the problems of defining slavery, and asks what makes a slave a slave? It focuses on powers of ownership and relations of domination, and critically examines Patterson’s constituent elements of slavery and his transhistorical definition of slavery as fundamentally about violence and slaves’ lack of legitimacy. It goes on to explore how Patterson’s emphasis on mortality and social death has been contested by others and what…
Slavery and the Revival of Anti-slavery Activism
Revisiting Slavery and Antislavery
Politics of Slavery
Critically interrogates of the history and politics of slavery, from classical Greek philosophy to today. What makes a slave a slave? What does it mean to think about slavery as a political question? This book examines slavery and freedom as founding narratives of the liberal subject and of modernity. Laura Brace asks what happens when we try to bring slaves back into history, and into the history of political thought in particular. Looking at sc…
Our bodies, whose property
Bodies in abolition
This paper explores some of connections between bodies and slavery in the antislavery discourses of the late eighteenth and the early twenty-first centuries. It focuses on representations of violence and cruelty, and on the discourses of blood, sweat and tears in the eighteenth century to interrogate the bases of the humanitarianism discourses and what it meant to ‘compassionate’ the suffering of others. It argues that the connections between sla…
Inhuman commerce
This article explores the British anti-slavery writings of the mid- to late 18th century, and the meanings which they gave to the idea of owning a property in the person. It addresses the construction of a particular moral and political landscape where freedom was understood as both a kind of property and as non-domination, and slavery was constructed as a form of theft, and as the exercise of arbitrary power. This created a complex moral space, …
Borders of emptiness
This article argues that we need to consider the question of ‘who belongs’ in terms of individuals' construction as market actors, workers and migrants as well as citizens. Using Hegel's theory of civil society, and Charles Mills' critique of the social contract, it argues for the significance of the process of self-government and the construction of a ‘hard inside’ for understanding migration and its relationship to embodiment, labour and belong…
Improving the Inside
This article looks at questions of politeness, conduct and civility in the 18th century to explore how individuals imagined owning themselves as market actors and as members of an emerging civil society. It focuses on how they managed the contradictions of participating in the capitalist market without being branded as gamblers. It argues that a moral economy of rational improvement and a disciplined self was crucial to this process, to counter t…
Rousseau, Maternity and the Politics of Emptiness
The primary aim of this article is to put Rousseau's arguments against wet nursing into political context, by discussing their connections with theatricality and representation and their wider connotations for understanding Rousseau's thought. In the process, it positions Rousseau's ideas in a specific eighteenth-century context, one that connects his arguments about wet nursing and maternal feeding to a wider discussion of morals and manners. Th…
Wayward Reproductions
The Tragedy of the Freelance Hustler
Minding the Gap
Not Empire, but Equality’
Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman , first published in 1792, has proved a problematic ‘classic text’ for feminism. This paper focuses on the liberal concept of self‐ownership to show how the Vindication both confronts and perpetuates the dilemmas of ‘liberal feminism’. Self‐ownership is not a term used by Wollstonecraft herself, but I make use of it in this paper because I believe it captures what she means by ‘independence…
Desperate debtors and counterfeit love
Revisiting Slavery and Antislavery
The Tragedy of the Freelance Hustler
Not Empire, but Equality’
Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman , first published in 1792, has proved a problematic ‘classic text’ for feminism. This paper focuses on the liberal concept of self‐ownership to show how the Vindication both confronts and perpetuates the dilemmas of ‘liberal feminism’. Self‐ownership is not a term used by Wollstonecraft herself, but I make use of it in this paper because I believe it captures what she means by ‘independence…
Desperate debtors and counterfeit love
Fallacies of hope
This article explores the risks and dangers of redemptive readings of JMW Turner’s (in)famous 1840 painting, Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying – Typhon Coming on) that assume that we cannot be complicit in anything other than abolition and deliberately forget and disavow the underlying structures and continuing dispossessions of slave racial capitalism. The paper reads the painting as an intervention in an important set of…
Rousseau, Maternity and the Politics of Emptiness
The primary aim of this article is to put Rousseau's arguments against wet nursing into political context, by discussing their connections with theatricality and representation and their wider connotations for understanding Rousseau's thought. In the process, it positions Rousseau's ideas in a specific eighteenth-century context, one that connects his arguments about wet nursing and maternal feeding to a wider discussion of morals and manners. Th…
Improving the Inside
This article looks at questions of politeness, conduct and civility in the 18th century to explore how individuals imagined owning themselves as market actors and as members of an emerging civil society. It focuses on how they managed the contradictions of participating in the capitalist market without being branded as gamblers. It argues that a moral economy of rational improvement and a disciplined self was crucial to this process, to counter t…
Desperate debtors and counterfeit love
Minding the Gap
Not Empire, but Equality’
Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman , first published in 1792, has proved a problematic ‘classic text’ for feminism. This paper focuses on the liberal concept of self‐ownership to show how the Vindication both confronts and perpetuates the dilemmas of ‘liberal feminism’. Self‐ownership is not a term used by Wollstonecraft herself, but I make use of it in this paper because I believe it captures what she means by ‘independence…
The Tragedy of the Freelance Hustler
Wayward Reproductions
Rousseau, Maternity and the Politics of Emptiness
The primary aim of this article is to put Rousseau's arguments against wet nursing into political context, by discussing their connections with theatricality and representation and their wider connotations for understanding Rousseau's thought. In the process, it positions Rousseau's ideas in a specific eighteenth-century context, one that connects his arguments about wet nursing and maternal feeding to a wider discussion of morals and manners. Th…
Improving the Inside
This article looks at questions of politeness, conduct and civility in the 18th century to explore how individuals imagined owning themselves as market actors and as members of an emerging civil society. It focuses on how they managed the contradictions of participating in the capitalist market without being branded as gamblers. It argues that a moral economy of rational improvement and a disciplined self was crucial to this process, to counter t…
Inhuman commerce
This article explores the British anti-slavery writings of the mid- to late 18th century, and the meanings which they gave to the idea of owning a property in the person. It addresses the construction of a particular moral and political landscape where freedom was understood as both a kind of property and as non-domination, and slavery was constructed as a form of theft, and as the exercise of arbitrary power. This created a complex moral space, …
Borders of emptiness
This article argues that we need to consider the question of ‘who belongs’ in terms of individuals' construction as market actors, workers and migrants as well as citizens. Using Hegel's theory of civil society, and Charles Mills' critique of the social contract, it argues for the significance of the process of self-government and the construction of a ‘hard inside’ for understanding migration and its relationship to embodiment, labour and belong…
Bodies in abolition
This paper explores some of connections between bodies and slavery in the antislavery discourses of the late eighteenth and the early twenty-first centuries. It focuses on representations of violence and cruelty, and on the discourses of blood, sweat and tears in the eighteenth century to interrogate the bases of the humanitarianism discourses and what it meant to ‘compassionate’ the suffering of others. It argues that the connections between sla…
Our bodies, whose property
The Politics of Slavery
This book asks what it means to describe someone as a slave and explores the political dimensions of that question. It argues against the search for a transhistorical and timeless definition of slavery, and offers a critical interrogation of the dominant liberal discourse on slavery from the Enlightenment to the present. It pays particular attention to the meanings of the slavery / freedom binary and to the connections between the past and the pr…
The Politics of Slavery
Critically interrogates the history and politics of slavery, from classical Greek philosophy to today What makes a slave a slave? What does it mean to think about slavery as a political question? This book examines slavery and freedom as founding narratives of the liberal subject and of modernity. Laura Brace asks what happens when we try to bring slaves back into history, and into the history of political thought in particular. Looking at schola…
The Subjection of Women
This chapter focuses on gender and slavery, and in particular on the rhetoric of thinking about wives as slaves in both the pre and post abolition contexts, and in the different and parallel conversations about empire that went on through the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the process of transforming humanity into moral beings, gender as a register of difference played out in complex ways that troubled the concept of personhood as a…
Locke and Hutcheson
This chapter focuses on Locke, and on the question of how we give slavery a history and think about it as a political relation. It investigates the colonial reading of Locke, his personal involvement in the slave trade and the connections between slavery and civil society. It argues that Locke’s justification of limited slavery needs to be linked to his view of civil society and the state of nature. This helps to explain the Carolinian context of…
Unparalleled Drudgery and the Deprivation of Freedom
This book insists on the connections between freedom, belonging and labour for understanding the politics of slavery. This chapter seeks to show how constructions of race and labour were inextricable from one another, and how thinking about slavery as a labour system is inseparable from understanding freedom as a contested concept, forged out of experience and struggle. Part of that struggle was about trying to find and define the limits of ensla…
Shining a Light on Slavery?
This chapter introduces the problems of defining slavery, and asks what makes a slave a slave? It focuses on powers of ownership and relations of domination, and critically examines Patterson’s constituent elements of slavery and his transhistorical definition of slavery as fundamentally about violence and slaves’ lack of legitimacy. It goes on to explore how Patterson’s emphasis on mortality and social death has been contested by others and what…
Slavery and the Revival of Anti-slavery Activism
Revisiting Slavery and Antislavery
Politics of Slavery
Critically interrogates of the history and politics of slavery, from classical Greek philosophy to today. What makes a slave a slave? What does it mean to think about slavery as a political question? This book examines slavery and freedom as founding narratives of the liberal subject and of modernity. Laura Brace asks what happens when we try to bring slaves back into history, and into the history of political thought in particular. Looking at sc…
The Politics of Property
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748615353);The concept of property is central to political thought and crucial to understanding the ideas of key political thinkers. This book provides an up-to-date analysis of the idea, taking into account current debates about gender, slavery and colonialism, and introducing property as a contested concept in debates between thinkers, across ideologies and in political practice.Analysing key debates in th…
Fallacies of hope
This article explores the risks and dangers of redemptive readings of JMW Turner’s (in)famous 1840 painting, Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying – Typhon Coming on) that assume that we cannot be complicit in anything other than abolition and deliberately forget and disavow the underlying structures and continuing dispossessions of slave racial capitalism. The paper reads the painting as an intervention in an important set of…
The Monies will not Answer
This paper explores the writing, and lives, of two women, Wollstonecraft and the contemporary writer Catrina Davies. It focuses on their experience of trying to live independent, creative and worthwhile lives under social and economic conditions of precarity and debt which curtail their aspirations to freedom. Wollstonecraft’s critique of property relations and of commercial society echoes through Davies’s experience of navigating the current hou…
My debts haunt me like furies
By analysing Mary Wollstonecraft's personal letters to her friends, her siblings and her lover, this article finds new ways of exploring how property informs her ideas about freedom and independence, and of connecting her ideas to our present. Her personal letters allow us to start a new conversation with Wollstonecraft, and to rethink the intimate connections between ideas and lives which have been so contested in past interpretations of her pol…
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