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Rewriting the victim : dramatization as research in Thailand's anti-trafficking movement

Kamler, Erin (Erin M.), author

2019

Overview

\"The international movement against the trafficking of women, which has gained momentum over the past two decades, is driven largely by the United States, in tandem with state governments and NGO workers. Feminist organizations have played a key role in carrying out anti-trafficking policies, but are increasingly divided over what those policies should look like. The primary divide exists between those feminists who want to abolish prostitution (as a key link to trafficking) and those who argue that what sex workers need is not to have their livelihoods taken away through paternalistic policies, but improved working conditions to alleviate the dangers associated with their work. A primary criticism of US NGO workers, well-intentioned as they may be, is that they misunderstand the cultural and economic conditions of the women they purport to help. This book provides a unique response to this misunderstanding. On one level it shows how this movement is, in fact, based on a Western mindset that problematizes women and puts its own interests before those of the women it is trying to help. But the project's primary innovation is in the method that it develops to explore the conflict of cultural values that gives rise to the aforementioned debates: what the author calls dramatization as research (DAR).This project, based around the author's work with migrant laborers, sex workers, activists, NGO employees, and other members of the anti-trafficking movement, combines feminist theory with the writing and production of a musical about the trafficking of women in Thailand\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: Social work with prostitutes Thailand. / Human trafficking Thailand Prevention. / Musicals Social aspects Thailand. / Feminist theory. / Non-governmental organizations Thailand. / United States Relations Thailand. / Thailand Relations United States.
• ISBN: 9780190840099

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HQ412.55.A5 K36 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE