Networked trafficking: reflections on technology and the anti-trafficking movement / Le trafic en réseau : réflexions sur la technologie et le mouvement anti-trafic
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- Authors:
- THAKOR, Mitali
BOYD, Danah - Author Affiliations:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue E51-070, Cambridge, MA 02139, United Kingdom
Microsoft Research, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10104, United States
New York University, New York, NY, United States - Source:
- Anti-Anti-Trafficking? Toward Critical Ethnographies of Human TraffickingDialectical anthropology. 37(2):277-290
- Publication Date:
- 2013-01-01
- Language:
- English
- Abstract:
- In this essay, we offer field notes from our ongoing ethnographic research on sex trafficking in the United States. Recent efforts to regulate websites such as Craigslist and Backpage have illuminated activist concerns regarding the role of networked technologies in the trafficking of persons and images for the purposes of sexual exploitation. We frame our understanding of trafficking and technology through a network studies approach, by describing anti-trafficking as a counter-network to the sex trafficking it seeks to address. Drawing from the work of Annelise Riles and other scholars of feminist science and technology studies, we read the anti-trafficking network through the production of expert knowledge and the crafting of anti-trafficking techniques. By exploring anti-trafficking activists' understandings of technology, we situate the activities of anti-trafficking experts and law enforcement as efforts toward network stabilization.
- Notes:
- Ethnology<br><br>FRANCIS
- Subjects:
- Cognition
Social anthropology and ethnology
Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie
Ethnologie
Ethnology
Structure et relations sociales
Social structure and social relations
Relations sociales. Relation interculturelles et interethniques. Identité collective
Social relations. Intercultural and interethnic relations. Collective identity
Amérique
America
Activisme
Activism
Féminisme
Feminism
Internet
Mouvement
Movement
Notes de terrain
Fieldnotes
Prostitution
Réseau
Network
Trafic
Traffic
Tráfico
Feminist STS
Internet studies
Network studies
Sex trafficking - Geography:
- Amérique du Nord
North America
Etats-Unis
United States of America - Format:
- Academic Journal
- Database:
- PASCAL Archive
- Journal:
- Anti-Anti-Trafficking? Toward Critical Ethnographies of Human Trafficking
- Volume:
- 37
- Issue:
- 2
- Page Start:
- 277
- Page Count:
- 14
- ISSN:
- 03044092
- Publisher:
- Dordrecht: Springer, 2013.
- Document Type:
- Article
- Physical Description:
- print, 2 p
