TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Moving rape: trafficking in the violence of postliberalization
JO  - Public culture
A1  - Amrute, Sareeta
SP  - 331
EP  - 359
VL  - 27
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0899-2363
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2841892
ID  - ref1
ER  -