abunting@yorku.ca
https://csiw-ectg.org/
Dr Annie Bunting is Professor of Law & Society at York University. Her research expertise includes socio-legal studies of marriage and childhoods, feminist international law, and culture, religion and law. Since 2010, she has directed an international research collaboration (SSHRC-funded Partnership) called Conjugal Slavery in War: Partnership for the study of enslavement, marriage and masculinities with historians of slavery, community-based researchers and women’s human rights scholars. This project includes partners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, Canada and England.
She is the co-editor of Marriage by Force? Contestation over Consent and Coercion in Africa (Ohio University Press 2016) with Benjamin Lawrance and Richard Roberts; Contemporary Slavery: Popular Rhetoric and Political Practice (University of British Columbia Press 2017, Cornell University Press 2018) with Joel Quirk; and Research as More than Extraction? Knowledge Production and Sexual Violence in Post Conflict African Societies (openDemocracy/ Beyond Trafficking and Slavery, eBook 2020) with Allen Kiconco and Joel Quirk.
Keywords: International gender justice; contemporary slavery; conflict-related SGBV