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| Author(s): |
Ana Paula Luna Sales
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2018-12-04 |
| Examining board members: |
Adriana Gracia Piscitelli;
Adriana de Resende Barreto Vianna;
Jânia Perla de Aquino;
Maria Filomena Gregori;
Natália Corazza Padovani
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| Advisor: | Adriana Gracia Piscitelli |
| Abstract | |
This is a thesis about fighting "sex crimes" in Fortaleza. Its object, however, surpasses the ensemble of practices that used to be mentioned combined, which I have named "sex crimes": human trafficking for sexual exploitation, child sexual exploitation, "sex tourism", and, occasionally, sexual abuse. Throughout the analysis of the daily "rescue", in which agents encountered the alleged "victims", I have developed my main argument that, in Fortaleza¿s margins, the politics of fighting "sex crimes" dissolved and merged into the dynamics of sexual economies. I sustain my argument based on the ethnographic study held from 2015 to 2017 with two missionary projects engaged in fighting "sex crimes": Sociedade da Redenção, in Pirambu, and Missão Iris, in Moura Brasil, and in Praia de Iracema. In the aforementioned neighborhoods I have also shared day-to-day activities with people targeted in these policies and came to realize that the actual occurrence of "sex crimes" was secondary, or even absent, in their lives, and the "rescue" categories were articulated to the categories of difference to produce inequalities amidst the margins indeterminate setting. At the same time, people who were considered to be "sex crimes victims" were subjected to successive and disconnected crises that withdrew the communal supports for their lives. In these contexts, daily living was regulated through moral systems operated by state agents, missionaries, and drug dealers who, in spite of their many differences, seemed to agree to focus on gender and sexualities dichotomist rules. I have came to realize that, many times, the politics of fighting "sex crimes" tried to "give voice" to sufferings that were not acknowledged, and this usually relegated "victims" experiences to a void. That inspired me to examine the ways people fought back this void, which went from reinforcing dichotomies to the making of new ways of producing knowledge. These observations led me to conclude that the indeterminate boundaries separating the fighting of "sex crimes" and the dynamics of sexual economies were inscribed not only in government apparatuses, but also in the embodied experiences of people (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 15/13332-7 - Desire, vulnerability and agency: effects of policies to diminish sex crimes upon the sex markets in Fortaleza |
| Grantee: | Ana Paula Luna Sales |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |