Cuerpo, sujeto y explotación : la esclavitud

Title in English Body, Subjectivity, and Exploitation : Slavery
Authors

BELLÓN AGUILERA José Luis

Year of publication 2026
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Sociología histórica
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
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Doi https://doi.org/10.6018/sh.668071
Keywords Slavery; historical modes; violence; marked bodies; subject in flight
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Description This article addresses the constants of slavery as a relationship of domination-exploitation with pre-capitalist remnants; it focuses on three of its forms: Greco-Roman, modern, and contemporary. The study raises three interrelated questions: first, that slaves bear the marks of their condition on their bodies, whether visibly—as effects of systematic violence or work conditions—or virtually, in the form of a stigma. Second, that slavery, as a relationship of domination-exploitation, possesses transhistorical traits in terms of violence, although the historical economic modes and scales vary. Third, that the slave subject is strained by various forms of agency and resistance: bargaining, escape, and rebellion. The contradictions of the dominant slave imaginary are not addressed.

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