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Globalization, prostitution and sex-trafficking, corporeal politics, Elina Penttinen

eng

Includes bibliographical references

index present

non fiction

Globalization, prostitution and sex-trafficking

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bibliography

Elina Penttinen

Routledge advances in international relations and global politics, 59

corporeal politics

Drawing on extensive fieldwork on the trafficking of marginalised Russian and Baltic female sex workers, the author demonstrates how the embodiment and reiteration of globalisation on the bodies of gendered individuals are tied to the larger processes of globalisation., 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 individuals. Elina Penttinen illustrates how the global sex industry feeds on complex global flows. Drawing on extensive fieldwork on the trafficking of Russian and Baltic female sex workers, she demonstrates how the embodiment and reiteration of globalization on the bodies of gendered individuals are tied to the larger processes of globalization. Appadurai's framework of landscapes of globalization is developed into a framework of shadow sexscapes in order to show how the global sex industry feeds on complex global flows and in turn operates as a form of shadow globalization. Globalization, Prostitution and Sex Trafficking will be of interest to students and researchers of international relations, globalization and gender studies