“Brazil has its eye on you”: sexual panic and the threat of sex tourism in Rio de Janeiro during the FIFA World Cup, 2014

The present article draws upon ethnographic research undertaken in the principal sexual commercial zones of the city of Rio de Janeiro and in the institutions and agencies responsible for combating sexual exploitation in Rio during the 2012-2014 period, as well as the analysis of media stories, to explain how and why carioca authorities have not been able to discover and repress the sex crimes they claim exist on a massive scale. We seek to show what effects the moral panic over child sexual exploitation during the 2015 World Cup has had in transforming security in Rio de Janeiro

Our Lady of Help: Sex, Tourism and Transnational Movements in Copacabana

Analysis of sexual tourism has generally concentrated on the subjugation of women as devalued objects of exchange shuffling between dominant and subordinate national universes. Basing our analysis on ethnographic fieldwork among tourists and prostitutes in the Copacabana neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, we seek to demonstrate how women\u27s ability to create and manipulate symbols enables the international movement of both Brazilian women and foreign men. This article recovers the agency of Brazilian women involved in tourism-related sex work, situating them as neither victims nor victimizers, but as active participants in the creation and management of both affective and commercial sexual relationships

From the Field

These short pieces, written by individuals engaged in sex work-related activism and scholarship, are intended to provide a snapshot of ongoing social justice efforts regarding this highly politicized issue. In the following commentaries, Sienna Baskin documents U.S. efforts to provide legal aid to sex workers and victim-survivors of sex trafficking, Thaddeus Blanchette describes a Brazilian prostitute’s campaign for a seat in Congress, Megan Morgenson speaks to the need to incorporate sex workers’ perspectives into anti-trafficking initiatives, Sarah Jenny Bleviss documents new mobile phone technology designed to help U.S. sex workers navigate the risks they face working in a criminalized profession, and Gregory Mitchell (together with Thaddeus Blanchette) and Jayne Swift detail two events on U.S. campuses designed to promote critical thinking about sex work and trafficking

Trouble Every Day: 1968 nos Estados Unidos

O ano de 1968 foi importante para a história contemporânea americana com reverberações que continuam até hoje. Todavia, é um tema pouco visitado pela historiografia brasileira. O presente artigo analisa o ano de 1968 nos Estados Unidos a partir de uma série de eventos significantes para compreender e introduzir algumas propostas interpretativas para aquela conjuntura histórica. Os arcos temáticos incorporados para análise são: o engajamento militar na Ásia e a fragmentação dos consensos políticos, sociais e culturais nos Estados Unidos, focalizados particularmente nas questões conjuntas de raça e classe

La antropología aplicada y la administración indígena en los Estados Unidos: 1934-1945

La antropología aplicada moderna en los Estados Unidos de América nació en el contexto de una reforma liderada por la Office of Indian Affairs (OIA). Nuestro propósito aquí es ofrecer un examen de las relaciones entre los agentes e instituciones involucrados con la antropología aplicada en la OIA durante la administración de John Collier. Fue entonces que nació una aproximación a la noción moderna de indigenismo , una época que marcó el primer uso sistematizado de antropólogos por parte de una institución gubernamental en los Estados Unidos. El asunto tiene relevancia especial para los estudiosos del indigenismo en América Latina, pues el Instituto Indigenista Interamericano fue concebido originalmente por Collier como un clearinghouse (literalmente un almacén de distribución ) de saberes y prácticas antropológicas referentes a los indios de las Américas

La antropología aplicada y la administración indígena en los Estados Unidos: 1934-1945

Modern applied anthropology in the United States was born in the context of a reform leaded by the Office of Indian Affairs (OIA). Our aim here is to offer an examination of the relationships between agents and institutions that were involved with applied anthropology in the OIA, during the John Collier administration. It was then, that an approximation to the modern notion of “indigenism” was born, a phase that represented the first systematic employment of anthropologists by a governmental institution in the United States. This matter is especially relevant for those scholars devoted to indigenism in Latin America, since the Inter-American Indian Institute was first conceived by Collier, as a clearinghouse for anthropological knowledge and practices regarding indigenous peoples of the Americas.La antropología aplicada moderna en los Estados Unidos de América nació en el contexto de una reforma liderada por la Office of Indian Affairs (OIA). Nuestro propósito aquí es ofrecer un examen de las relaciones entre los agentes e instituciones involucrados con la antropología aplicada en la oia durante la administración de John Collier. Fue entonces que nació una aproximación a la noción moderna de “indigenismo”, una época que marcó el primer uso sistematizado de antropólogos por parte de una institución gubernamental en los Estados Unidos. El asunto tiene relevancia especial para los estudiosos del indigenismo en América Latina, pues el Instituto Indigenista Interamericano fue concebido originalmente por Collier como un clearinghouse (literalmente un “almacén de distribución”) de saberes y prácticas antropológicas referentes a los indios de las Américas