Globalization, Prostitution and Sex Trafficking: Corporeal Politics: 59 (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics) - Hardcover

Penttinen, Elina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415420997 ISBN 13: 9780415420990

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Elina Penttinen is a postdoctoral researcher at Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI) at the University of Tampere, Finland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0415420997
• ISBN 13: 9780415420990
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192