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SUMMARY:Development & Damnation:  Some Lessons for Brazil  from London and
  Cape Town on  Sex Trafficking\, Moral Panics and Gentrification during Gl
 obal Sporting Events - Gregory Mitchell\, Department of Women's\, Gender\,
  and Sexual Studies\, Williams College\, USA
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CONTACT:Emilie Ringe
DESCRIPTION:In the run-up to the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics\, the Br
 azilian government is engaged in a militarized campaign to clean up favela
 s\, blighted areas\, and red light districts so that it may "develop" them
 . This research\, based on ethnographic anthropological work in Rio de Jan
 eiro\, London and Cape Town\, examines how neoliberal agents\, state force
 s and NGOs are using discourses of feminism and human rights – especiall
 y fears about sex trafficking and sporting events - to enact these changes
 .  By destroying Rio de Janeiro’s legal prostitution venues\, these acto
 rs have created the very exploitation they purport to prevent\, inadverten
 tly encouraging new trafficking networks and opportunities for exploitatio
 n.  The research also links these actions to US foreign policy mandates an
 d a broader shift in governmentality within Brazil predicated on performin
 g a commitment to sexual diversity\, tolerance and progress that\, in actu
 ality\, marginalizes vulnerable sexual populations. By examining the contr
 adictions\, elisions\, and paradoxes of Brazilian intervention into sexual
  ontologies alongside case studies from previous host cities that struggle
 d with these questions (i.e.\, London in the case of the Olympics\, Cape T
 own for the World Cup)\, this article reveals troublesome and often contra
 dictory alliances that have aligned at the expense of women laboring preca
 riously on the sexual margins of society.\n
LOCATION: Lecture Theatre\, Trinity Hall.
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