Suchland Economies of Violence

Transnational Feminism, Postsocialism, and the Politics of Sex Trafficking
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7528-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Jennifer Suchland argues that human trafficking should be understood as symptomatic of complex economic and social dynamics rather than as a criminal activity, and that treating trafficking as a crime and by focusing on victims is insufficient to combatting it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Suchland, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. Trafficking as Aberration: The Making of Globalization's Victims 1

Part I. Global 25

1. Sex Trafficking and the Making of a Feminist Subject of Analysis 29

2. The Natasha Trade and the Post-Cold War Reframing of Precarity 53

Part II. Postsocialist 85

3. Second World/Second Sex: Alternative Genealogies in Feminist Homogenous Empty Time 89

4. Lost in Transition: Postsocialist Trafficking and the Erasure of Systemic Violence 121

Part III. Economies of Violence 159

5. Freedom as Choice and the Neoliberal Economism of Trafficking Discourse 163

Conclusion. Antitrafficking beyond the Carceral State 187

Notes 195

References 219

Index 247

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Suchland is Associate Professor of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University.