Prophylactic Rights

Simanti Dasgupta is Associate Professor of Anthropology and the director of the International Studies Program at the University of Dayton. Her research interest lies in the politics of citizenship and belonging in postcolonial and neoliberal nation-states. She has published in PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review; Anti-Trafficking Review, Opendemocracy: Beyond trafficking and slavery and The Conversation. She is the author of BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water and Neoliberal Governance in India (Temple University Press, 2015).

Acknowledgements; List of images; Introduction: The Karmi [Worker]: From Pesha (Prostitution) to Kaaj (Sex Work); 1. The Laboring Gatar: The Body Between Suffering and Risk; 2. Condom-Wallis [Condom Sellers] and Condom Narratives; 3. The Politics of Victimhood: Pachar and Trafficking; 4. The Mela, Unfreedom and Mobility; Epilogue: Another Virus, Another Lockdown with Tarun Basu; Bibliography; Index.