Local Dependencies Global Routes

This Workshop is part of Research Area C, which explores forms of asymmetrical dependency produced at the crossroads of conflicting institutions, norms, and practices. The aim of the workshop is to reflect on how alternative routes define forms of dependency, and how forms of dependency determine the types of routes. This workshop will specifically look into context and contextualization, trading places and, thus, on entanglements and – so to say – “levels” of dependency and their definition. We can look on the agency of the people involved, both traders and trafficked, explaining in part local social relations of asymmetrical dependency. Slave routes continue to be understood and conceptionalized primarily as transatlantic or trans-Saharan.