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.
Author(s): Elina Penttinen
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 167
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 8
Copyright......Page 9
Dedication......Page 10
Contents......Page 12
Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 18
1 Introduction: The silent point of globalization......Page 22
2 Bio-power and subjectivation in the globalized world economy of sex......Page 36
3 Sexscapes of globalization: Constructions of subject and abject positions in landscapes of globalization......Page 59
4 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…......Page 79
5 Sounds of silence in Lapland: Narratives of trafficking in women across Finnish–Russian and Norwegian borders......Page 110
6 “The land of perverts”: The domain of subjectivity from the position of an abject to the global village – narratives of foreign erotic dancers in Finland......Page 133
7 Conclusions: Narratives of corporeal politics......Page 155
Notes......Page 165
Bibliography......Page 177
Index......Page 185
