Christopher J Shepherd
East Timor: rural development, environmental conservation, natural resource management, development's politics of knowledge, history of anthropology, history of ethnography.
Peru: history of agriculture, history of science, green revolution, agro-biodiversity, mining on indigenous lands, indigenous relocation.
Phone: +51994332963
Address: B1, Quinto Piso, Calle Cesar Vargas, Barrio Los Angeles, Cusco, PERU
Peru: history of agriculture, history of science, green revolution, agro-biodiversity, mining on indigenous lands, indigenous relocation.
Phone: +51994332963
Address: B1, Quinto Piso, Calle Cesar Vargas, Barrio Los Angeles, Cusco, PERU
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Amazon region. This is accompanied by an increase in sex trafficking of
Indigenous girls and women from the southern Andes. This article focuses on the
emerging economic and cultural connections that spanAndean andAmazonianmining
and sex trafficking migration in the region. The notion of precarity is applied
to assess victims’ agency within a racialized, neoliberal, informal labor market at
the fringes of global capitalism. In tracing the trajectory of trafficked adolescents
from highlands to lowlands and, in some cases, into state-run shelters, the role of
padrinazgo (patronage of godparents) is explored. It is argued that trafficked subjects’
choices are circumscribed by padrinazgo-type relationships with traffickers,
according to which they pursue a “preferred precarity” across competing existential,
vocational, and subjective states.
Amazon region. This is accompanied by an increase in sex trafficking of
Indigenous girls and women from the southern Andes. This article focuses on the
emerging economic and cultural connections that spanAndean andAmazonianmining
and sex trafficking migration in the region. The notion of precarity is applied
to assess victims’ agency within a racialized, neoliberal, informal labor market at
the fringes of global capitalism. In tracing the trajectory of trafficked adolescents
from highlands to lowlands and, in some cases, into state-run shelters, the role of
padrinazgo (patronage of godparents) is explored. It is argued that trafficked subjects’
choices are circumscribed by padrinazgo-type relationships with traffickers,
according to which they pursue a “preferred precarity” across competing existential,
vocational, and subjective states.