8 research outputs found
Sex Panics and City Papers: Mass Media and Public Controversy Over the Traffic in Women
270 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.A final chapter considers a controversy over prostitution and trafficking in the 1990s by analyzing a debate over commercial sex advertisements in a local alternative weekly. Discourse analysis of this debate suggests the persistence of a symbolic connection between mass distribution media and a perceived traffic in women.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD
Threat or Opportunity? Sexuality, Gender and the Ebb and Flow of Trafficking as Discourse
Running from the Rescuers: New U.S. Crusades Against Sex Trafficking and the Rhetoric of Abolition
Europe, knowledge, politics engaging with the limits : the C.A.S.E. collective responds
HAVING ONEâS WORK closely read and critically debated is a rare pleasure. It was thus with great joy that we saw that our collective article âCritical Approaches to Security in Europe: A Networked Manifestoâ (c.a.s.e. collective, 2006) provoked several thoughtful responses to
the theoretical premises of the manifesto and its intellectual and political ramifications. The replies to the manifesto created a new space of selfinterrogation in which the c.a.s.e. collective grappled with some of the limits that our critics addressed. Before we address some of these more directly, it may be useful to restate the original objective of the collective manifesto.
First, the authors that were part of the collective had a desire to push critical innovations in security studies beyond the framing of critical security studies
in terms of schools. The aim of working and writing as a collective, as a network of scholars who do not agree on everything yet share a common perspective, was based on a desire to break with the competitive dynamics of
individualist research agendas. Alluding to the emancipatory connotations of the word âmanifestoâ,
the aim of the article was to carve out and open up
an intellectual space for critical thinking â both in the disciplinary sense of formulating an alternative space to mainstream security studies and in the political sense of thinking through the ethico-political implications of
security and securitizatio