Trafficking in Human Beings: Made and Cut to Measure? Anti-trafficking Docufictions and the Production of Anti-trafficking Truths
| Autor: | Kiril Sharapov, Jonathan Mendel |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Cultural Studies
Agnotology 364 Criminology media_common.quotation_subject Culture and Communities Measure (physics) 050801 communication & media studies Ignorance Criminology Public opinion 0508 media and communications Political science 050602 political science & public administration Production (economics) Narrative docufictions media_common business.industry Social Sciences Research Group 05 social sciences media General Social Sciences HQ The family. Marriage. Woman Migration and Mobility 0506 political science ignorance frames public opinion Human trafficking business trafficking in human beings Social justice exploitation |
| ISSN: | 1749-9755 1749-9763 |
| Popis: | This article responds to Gozdziak’s (2015: 30) call to explore how the knowledge that informs public debates about human trafficking is generated. Media imagery and narratives play a significant role in constructing both knowledge and ignorance. This article reflects on the construction of such knowledge by analysing how anti-trafficking docufiction videos from the Unchosen competition dramatize trafficking. We draw on Goffman’s (1974) work on frames to analyse how these videos present a simplified interpretation of reality, where certain constructed aspects of trafficking and exploitation are represented by video-makers as illustrating the general. In doing so, we highlight how anti-trafficking docufictions help efface everyday exploitation. The article contributes both to the empirical research on the construction of knowledge about trafficking, and to critical conceptual work on (anti)trafficking, exploitation and ignorance. It is part of a broader project to challenge exceptionalizing and individualizing representations of human trafficking – aiming to engage better with everyday exploitation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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