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Economies of violence : transnational feminism, postsocialism, and the politics of sex trafficking / Jennifer Suchland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Suchland, Jennifer, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human trafficking.
- Feminism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>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.</div>
- Contents:
- Introduction: trafficking as aberration: the making of globalization's victims
- Sex trafficking and the making of a feminist subject of analysis
- The Natasha trade and the post-Cold War reframing of precarity
- Second world/second sex: alternative genealogies in feminist homogenous empty time
- Lost in transition: postsocialist trafficking and the erasure of systemic violence
- Freedom as choice and the neoliberal economism of trafficking discourse
- Conclusion: antitrafficking beyond the carceral state.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822375289
- 0822375281
- OCLC:
- 1139359648
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