“Juanita/Svetlana/Geeta” Is Crying: Melodrama, Human Rights, and Anti-Trafficking Interventions
Carole Vance
Associate Clinical Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
Thursday, September 27, 2007
4pm
754 Schermerhorn ExtensionThe
talk examines important themes in the flood of documentary, journalism
and policy about trafficking into forced prostitution, and the ways in
which culturally resonant themes about gender, sexuality, innocence,
globalization, and sensation structure narratives about trafficking, to
great effect. While electrifying and mobilizing, these “stories of
trafficking’ motivate and support interventions that ignore—rather than
support-- human rights frameworks. What narrative conventions, genres,
tactics, and subjectivities would inform alternative ways of telling
the story and formulating rights-enhancing policies?
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