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Economies of violence : transnational feminism, postsocialism, and the politics of sex trafficking /

Recent human rights campaigns against sex trafficking have focused on individual victims, treating trafficking as a criminal aberration in an otherwise just economic order. In Economies of Violence Jennifer Suchland directly critiques these explanations and approaches, as they obscure the reality th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Suchland, Jennifer
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Durham: Duke University Press, c2015.
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Table of 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.