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Ingenious Citizenship: Recrafting Democracy for Social Change
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7483-1
Publication date:
2016
Book Chapter
Global Sex Workers, Calculated Abjection, and Appropriating Economic Citizenship
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Published:February 2016
Chapter 3 advances a reading of global sex work as an inventive appropriation of liberal economic citizenship that utilizes calculated abjection of female bodies to procure a living wage in the shadows of capital. It first identifies a postindustrial formation of “antitrafficking assemblages” that campaigns against prostitution in reproducing the order of global capitalism. Given that this antitrafficking alliance has not made sex work disappear but rather driven it into clandestine indoor venues and online commercial sex markets, what results is not the elimination of sexual abjection but rather a fluid, neoliberal mode of economic abjection. The chapter then analyzes...
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