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Globalization, prostitution and sex-trafficking : corporeal politics /

Globalization has been traditionally interpreted as a phenomenon that takes place at the macro level and is determined by states and markets. This volume takes a different approach to understanding globalization, showing how through the global sex trade, globalization is embodied and enacted by indi...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Penttinen, Elina (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London ; New York : Routledge, [2008]
Collection:Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; 59.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : the silent point of globalization
  • Bio-power and subjectivation in the globalized world economy of sex
  • Sexscapes of globalization : constructions of subject and abject positions in landscapes of globalization
  • Narratives of embodied globalization of Russian prostitutes working in the erotic clubs in Helsinki : reflections on one night in Helsinki from the position of a whore, a client, and a researcher
  • Sounds of silence in Lapland : narratives of trafficking in women across Finnish-Russian and Norwegian borders
  • "The land of perverts" : domain of subjectivity from the position of an abject to the global village : narratives of foreign erotic dancers in Finland
  • Conclusions : narratives of corporeal politics.