Prophylactic Rights - Dasgupta, Simanti
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"Based on ethnographic work with Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee in Sonagachi, the iconic red-light district in Kolkata, Prophylactic Rights examines the emergence of labour rights at the intersection of HIV/AIDS and anti-trafficking. The primary disciplinary contribution of this book lies in bridging medical and legal anthropology through a corporeal understanding of sex work rights. It addresses the following questions: How does the labor rights narrative emerge through everyday negotiations with an epidemic and the law and what congeries of history, public health policies, legal regimes,…mehr

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"Based on ethnographic work with Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee in Sonagachi, the iconic red-light district in Kolkata, Prophylactic Rights examines the emergence of labour rights at the intersection of HIV/AIDS and anti-trafficking. The primary disciplinary contribution of this book lies in bridging medical and legal anthropology through a corporeal understanding of sex work rights. It addresses the following questions: How does the labor rights narrative emerge through everyday negotiations with an epidemic and the law and what congeries of history, public health policies, legal regimes, and techniques of subjection and subversion impede and impel the labor movement? The book will fill a gap in existing research by investigating what it means to be a sex worker in Sonagachi struggling for labor rights based on their lived experiences and bring focus to their struggles for rights and acknowledgment as equal members of society"--
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Simanti Dasgupta is Associate Professor of Anthropology and the director of the International Studies Program at the University of Dayton. Her research interest lies in the politics of citizenship and belonging in postcolonial and neoliberal nation-states. She has published in PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review; Anti-Trafficking Review, Opendemocracy: Beyond trafficking and slavery and The Conversation. She is the author of BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water and Neoliberal Governance in India (Temple University Press, 2015).