Searching for South America: Secret Agents, Police Officers and Pimps in the League of Nations in the 1920s
This article examines the cultural encounters among League of Nations’ special agents and official authorities of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro in the first international investigation on traffic of women. Marked by cultural distances, such encounters resulted in the emergence of an idea of “South...
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| description | This article examines the cultural encounters among League of Nations’ special agents and official authorities of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro in the first international investigation on traffic of women. Marked by cultural distances, such encounters resulted in the emergence of an idea of “South America” as a specific region in a broader moral geography. Although they sought to create the conditions for international collaborative initiatives, the League of Nations’ agents did not recognize the local meanings of anti-traffic legislation and its utility for the same police forces they reputed inefficient. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d2301f6bd1474f88a7b5f3ee8e13da6e2022-12-21T19:52:59ZengIberoamericana / VervuertIberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal1577-33882255-520X2017-03-0117648110310.18441/ibam.17.2017.64.81-1031833Searching for South America: Secret Agents, Police Officers and Pimps in the League of Nations in the 1920sCristiana Schettini0CONICET / Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género - Universidad de Buenos Aires / Universidad Nacional de General San MartinThis article examines the cultural encounters among League of Nations’ special agents and official authorities of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro in the first international investigation on traffic of women. Marked by cultural distances, such encounters resulted in the emergence of an idea of “South America” as a specific region in a broader moral geography. Although they sought to create the conditions for international collaborative initiatives, the League of Nations’ agents did not recognize the local meanings of anti-traffic legislation and its utility for the same police forces they reputed inefficient.http://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/2235ProstitutionTraffic of womenSouth AmericaLeague of Nations |
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| title | Searching for South America: Secret Agents, Police Officers and Pimps in the League of Nations in the 1920s |
| title_full | Searching for South America: Secret Agents, Police Officers and Pimps in the League of Nations in the 1920s |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Searching for South America: Secret Agents, Police Officers and Pimps in the League of Nations in the 1920s |
| title_short | Searching for South America: Secret Agents, Police Officers and Pimps in the League of Nations in the 1920s |
| title_sort | searching for south america secret agents police officers and pimps in the league of nations in the 1920s |
| topic | Prostitution Traffic of women South America League of Nations |
| url | http://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/2235 |
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