Adriana Piscitelli

Entre as "máfias" e a "ajuda": a construção de conhecimento sobre tráfico de pessoas

In this article, I comment on some difficulties related to the building up of knowledge on human trafficking. I base myself on research experience carried out in Brazil and in Spain which shows the importance of mapping and locating the notions of the different interest groups involved, including those people whom it is expected to protect and help. I analyze methodological problems, discussing the effects of the validity of the different definitions of human trafficking in the production of data and documents. In conclusion, I take into consideration the distinctions between crime and the violation of human rights so as to reflect on one of the aspects present in the material: the distance between the perception of tose technically considered to be victims of trafficking and the legal definitions of this crime.

Apresentação: gênero no mercado do sexo

Pensar nas marcas de genero que atravessam o mercado do sexo e um desafio que remete a diversas ordens de questoes. Antes de explora-las, contudo, uma observacao e necessaria. Porque utilizar essa expressao, mercado do sexo, e nao outra (prostituicao, por exemplo)? O sexo comercial tem dado lugar a uma verdadeira industria. Laura Agustin afirma que considerar os elementos que a integram conduz a perceber que nos deparamos nao com “a prostituicao”, mas com uma diversidade de trabalhos sexuais. E a lista e imensa, abarcando os desempenhados em bordeis, boates, bares, discos, saunas, linhas telefonicas eroticas, sexo virtual atraves da Internet, casas de massagem, servicos de acompanhantes, agencias matrimoniais, hoteis, moteis, cinemas e revistas pornos, filmes e videos, servicos de dominacao e submissao/sado-masoquismo, prostituicao na rua. Segundo a autora, para alem de ocultar essa diversidade, o termo prostituicao tambem pode obscurecer a compreensao de ha, de fato, um mercado, e, portanto, desviar a atencao da demanda, dos diversos desejos das pessoas que procuram servicos sexuais

Cadernos Pagu: contribuindo para a consolidação de um campo de estudos

As scientific publications are influential indicators and constitute disciplinary fields, this article reflects on the importance of Cadernos Pagu, published twice a year by Unicamp’s Nucleo de Estudos de Genero [Gender Studies Center], as it has contributed to the consolidation of that field of studies both through de stimulation and diffusion of knowledge in the area in Brazil. Here gender is no conceived of as a theme, but rather as a categorical distinction, as a distinction between characteristics taken as feminine and masculine, that run through society and, as such, can be felt within any thematic frame.

Violências e afetos: intercâmbios sexuais e econômicos na (recente) produção antropológica realizada no Brasil

Neste texto apresento uma leitura critica de parte da recente producao antropologica sobre intercâmbios sexuais e economicos, realizada no Brasil. Delineio primeiro alguns tracos do contexto no qual foram realizados esses estudos. Considero depois aspectos marcantes dessa producao. Levo em conta a maneira como esses estudos incorporam diferentes dimensoes de violencia, como tratam das relacoes entre genero e sexualidade e como analisam as articulacoes entre afetos e dinheiro no âmbito do sexo mercantilizado. Finalmente, realizo alguns comentarios sobre as singularidades da producao brasileira, em termos da literatura internacional sobre esses temas.

Erotics, love and violence: European women's travels in the northeast of Brazil

In this article I analyze the cross-border sexual and affective relationships women from diverse European countries form with local men in two coastal touristic villages of the state of Ceará, in the northeast of Brazil. Drawing on ethnographic research I consider how, in the frame of ambiguous sexual, economic, and affective exchanges, violence intertwines with erotics and with notions of love. I take the womens narratives as the central reference. My main argument is that the delight provoked by the transformation of their erotic subjectivities and the idea of rehearsing new forms of heterosexual relatedness, which involve what they consider unusual forms of love, feed the ambiguities pervading their relationships with local men, making these women unaware of the economic aspects involved in their relationships and of occasional hostility and subalternization to which they are subjected. Only in the frame of the acute increase in the tensions provoked by the change in these womens status from tourists to foreign residents, they label their partners economic demands as exploitative and their actions as violence.

“#queroviajarsozinhasemmedo”: novos registros das articulações entre gênero, sexualidade e violência no Brasil

O titulo deste texto alude a um dos diversos hashtags que circularam no Twitter, no Brasil, em 2016, como parte das reacoes ao desaparecimento e morte, no inicio desse ano, de duas jovens turistas argentinas no Equador. Essas reacoes tiveram lugar no âmbito do que foi denominado “primavera feminista no Brasil” e sao inusuais em um pais no qual se prestou pouca atencao a violencia perpetrada contra as turistas. Tomando-as como ponto de partida, exploro algumas questoes metodologicas a serem enfrentadas em estudos sobre as relacoes entre genero, violencia e turismo e levanto dois pontos vinculados ao debate mais amplo sobre as relacoes entre genero, sexualidade e violencia. O primeiro remete as condicoes que tornam certos registros da violencia particularmente relevantes para os feminismos. O segundo ponto se refere as ferramentas analiticas que as abordagens teoricas feministas oferecem para refletir sobre essas relacoes.

Economias sexuais, amor e tráfico de pessoas – novas questões conceituais

Neste texto realizo alguns comentarios sobre as recentes discussoes relativas as economias sexuais, ao trafico de pessoas e a relacao entre essas problematicas, levando em conta novas questoes que se delineiam no debate sobre elas. Neles dialogo com textos publicados neste numero dos cadernos pagu, considerando resultados de pesquisas realizadas no Brasil e em outros paises da America Latina. Meus comentarios estao alinhavados em torno de duas questoes que surgem no dialogo entre essa producao e os artigos de Christian Groess-Green, Marcia Anita Sprandel, Kamala Kempadoo e Amalia Cabezas publicados neste volume. Refiro-me, em primeiro lugar, as possibilidades analiticas e as limitacoes de nocoes como economias sexuais e mercados do sexo. Uma segunda questao remete as formas de governamentalidade articuladas nos regimes de combate ao trafico de pessoas que afetam esses intercâmbios, particularmente o trabalho sexual. A pergunta e, nos quinze anos transcorridos a partir da promulgacao do Protocolo de Palermo,o mais importante dispositivo legal supranacional relativo a esse crime, que novas questoes se delineiam na analise desses regimes e de seus efeitos nas trocas sexuais e economicas?

Dossier "anthropology and kinship" foreword

It would be somewhat redundant to state again that the study of kinship lies at the heart of anthropology. Yet there is a hiatus between the studies of societies we might call complex and those we may term exotic. The advantages of an interchange between studies of kinship in complex and exotic societies are clear to us and lie behind the motives for organizing this dossier. What we had in mind was, in the spirit of interdisciplinary within anthropology to bring together researchers of kinship who generally don’t meet one another in scientific events. While the articles are quite distinct in terms of the problems raised and the subjects and research methods they are presented here together in the hope that proximity between them will lead to understandings, which would not emerge were they to be looked at separately. This dossier is therefore an attempt to give rein to new encounters. The labels of complex and exotic were not chosen at random: such adjectives are not antonyms and nor are the problems raised in articles that have been forged in the two traditions. The dossier is composed of fourteen articles based on ethnographic research, of which ten look at kinship in complex societies and four in exotic societies. Written originally in 1970, Antonio Augusto Arantes Neto’s article presents a structural analysis of ritual kinship (compadrio) among peasant communities in the backlands of Bahia. Written under the supervision of Edmund Leach but never before published, it includes as postscript correspondence between the author and his supervisor. Débora Allebrandt compares discussions on international adoption and assisted reproduction to reflect upon kinship theories that contribute to the understanding of tensions present in notions of the family and conceptions of what is considered natural. Flávio Tarnovski, who conducted research among homosexual parents in France looks at the specificities of co-parenthood among gays and lesbians. Juliane Bazzo examines the tensions between kinship, rights over territory, and state controls over the environment in a small fishing community in the state of Paraná in an area that is suffering from intense natural erosion. Andréa Lobo’s paper is based on research in Cabo Verde. Paying particular