A Red Card against Sex Tourism: Moral Panics and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil
A Red Card against Sex Tourism: Moral Panics and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil
In 2014, FASS sponsored a series of short lectures featuring junior scholars whose research may not yet be well known across the campus. FASSinating Research/ers offers an opportunity to learn more about the exciting research initiatives of our new colleagues.
Our second speaker in the lecture series is Dr. Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan of the Department of Sociology & Anthropology. In this talk, Dr. Carrier-Moisan drew on ethnographic research conducted in Natal, one of the twelve host cities of the 2014 World Cup, to examine the campaigns against sex tourism and sex trafficking fueled by a moral panic associated with the advent of several mega-sporting events in Brazil. The lecture focused on the appeal to public emotions in these campaigns and their use to legitimate repressive interventions against local sex workers.
