@article{ref1,
title="Moving rape: trafficking in the violence of postliberalization",
journal="Public culture",
year="2015",
author="Amrute, Sareeta",
volume="27",
number="2",
pages="331-359",
abstract="This article discusses violence against women in cars in India, including the recent high-profile Delhi rape case, arguing that these cases should be set in the context of economic liberalization. The dynamic between women and their drivers should be understood as a labor relationship within a mode of consumer citizenship that revalorizes Indian middle classes. I argue that the men who drive are members of a lower class with an ambivalent position in liberalized Indian economies, simultaneously excluded from protections of government and relied on to do the dangerous job of navigating roads at speed. I focus on call center drivers as an example through which to think about how such subjects figure in postliberalization Indian imaginaries--as border guards to middle-class private consumer pleasures and as call center workers with unvalorized labor. I use the cases of call center violence to illuminate the relationship between economic privatization and privacy in India today.   Keywords: Human trafficking<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0899-2363",
doi="10.1215/08992363-2841892",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2841892"
}