Globalization, Prostitution and Sex Trafficking Corporeal Politics

9780415420990

0415420997

Globalization has been traditionally interpreted as a phenomenon that takes place at macro level and is determined by states and markets. This book takes a different approach to understanding globalization, showing how through the global sex trade, globalization is embodied and enacted by individuals.Globalization, Prostitution and Sex-trafficking 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, the author demonstrates how the embodiment and reiteration of globalization on the bodies of gendered individuals are tied to the larger processes of globalization. In this book Appadurai's framework of landscapes of globalization is developed into a framework of shadow sexscapes in order to illustrate how the global sex industry feeds on complex global flows and in turn operates as a form of shadow globalization.This book will be of interest to students and researchers of international relations, globalization and gender studies.