Out now: DEPENDENT, Issue 8 Out now: DEPENDENT, Issue 8

Welcome to the eight’s issue of our Cluster Magazine DEPENDENT, an edition that puts the spotlight on how we work. We invite you on a tour of our sixteen International Partnerships, to learn about the nature and scope of these relationships and their impact on dependency and slavery studies.

In his introduction, BCDSS speaker Stephan Conermann makes a strong case for strategic partnerships as a means to prepare the ground for his vision of “a multilateral network that enables the circular mobility of people, ideas and research results”. What does it take to establish sustainable, strategic partnerships?

We strive to offer diverse answers and perspectives in this magazine: from our partners’ points of view, who share their critical reflections, and from the perspective of the BCDSS, for instance, when Principal Investigator Michael Zeuske takes us on his latest “fact-finding mission” to Cuba.

A successful partnership is “poised to be a catalyst for transformative academic endeavours and impactful research initiatives, addressing critical issues related to dependency and slavery,” as Chioma Daisy Onyige of the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, puts it. Find out more about her view among the many perspectives and “academic endeavours” shared in this edition.

As usual, we shed light on recent research trips by BCDSS scholars, this time taking us to South America and Oceania. Our four reports from recent conferences and workshops, which includes a report on a course offered in cooperation with Theater Bonn, clearly reflect and illustrate the Cluster’s transdisciplinary and global approach to slavery and dependency.

Enjoy the read!