reflection
Sexuality and Globalization
GLOBL 162
Professor Paul Amar
Operation Princess in Rio de Janeiro: Human Trafficking and Race/Gender Justice in a Global Frame
Questions
New forms of gender/sexuaity/decolonial mobility, visibility and recognition
Backlash by forces of moralization, patriarchal “protection,” and vigilantism
Ambivalent roles of “human rights industry”/humanitarians
Appropriation of politics of anti-trafficking by policing regimes and neotraditionalists
Unique forms of panic politics, as well as resistance emerging from Global South
Operation Princess: Jump Back to 2003
Operation Princess in Rio de Janeiro
The “Human Security Revolution” posed in the early Lula era (2003)
Moral Security coalition plus Military Police… blessed by Worker’s Party
The target : abolition of “child sex slavery”.
Princess Isabel
Racialized paternatlistic missionary Abolitionism)
Rescue “child” or empower workers?
“Bloco Bala-Biblia” Internationalism
Pentecostal Internationalism
“Genital Xenophobia”
Police and Governor attempt to expand their fiat as corruption, militia activity, and war on narcotraffic begins to be challenged.
Mechanisms of Subversion
Surveillance of police racketeering by tabloid “security media”
Mobilzation of workerist logics of security by state, sex-worker groups, and Green Party
Revival of discourse of Brasilidade of “erotic democracy”
Bush ex machina
World Cup and Olympics