Rethinking trafficking in women
Subtitle: politics out of security
By: Claudia Aradau.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Human trafficking -- European Union countries; Women -- Violence against -- European Union countries; Prostitution -- European Union countries
Description: What should be done about trafficking in women? Rethinking Trafficking in Women argues that the question to be asked is, 'What cannot be done about trafficking in women?' Exploring the complex relationship between security, subjectivity and politics, Aradau argues that security practices reproduce a politics of unfreedom and inequality. Politics out of security, on the contrary, is formulated around universality, equality and freedom. In the situation of trafficking, the equality and universality of work disrupt the specification of difference and of particularized subjectivity upon which security practices rely. Aradau emphasizes that the reduction of politics to security limits struggles for equality and freedom and entrenches divisions and boundaries in the world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: On the contradictions of trafficking in women; title: Problematizing trafficking in women : in the absence of security?; title: Problematizing security : the presence of an absence; title: Unmaking security : desecuritization, emancipation, ethics; title: Subjects, knowledge, resistance; title: The politics of equality; title: The politics of (ambiguous) universality; title: The politics of freedom; title: Conclusion: Politics happens.