Rethinking trafficking in women : politics out of security / Claudia Aradau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aradau, Claudia, 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human trafficking--European Union countries.

Human trafficking.

Women--Violence against--European Union countries.

Women.

Prostitution--European Union countries.

Prostitution.

Women--Violence against.

European Union countries.

Physical Description:

vii, 225 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

What should be done about trafficking in women? Rethinking Trafficking in Women argues that the question to be asked is, 'What cannot be done about trafficking in women?' Exploring the complex relationship between security, subjectivity and politics, Aradau argues that security practices reproduce a politics of unfreedom and inequality. Politics out of security, on the contrary, is formulated around universality, equality and freedom. In the situation of trafficking, the equality and universality of work disrupt the specification of difference and of particularized subjectivity upon which security practices rely. Aradau emphasizes that the reduction of politics to security limits struggles for equality and freedom and entrenches divisions and boundaries in the world.

Contents:

Introduction : on the contradictions of trafficking in women

Problematizing trafficking in women : in the absence of security?

Problematizing security : the presence of an absence

Unmaking security : desecuritization, emancipation, ethics

Subjects, knowledge, resistance

The politics of equality

The politics of (ambiguous) universality

The politics of freedom

Conclusion : politics happens.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-219) and index.

ISBN:

0230573312

9780230573314

OCLC:

183879744

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