A L Cabezas
Biographic Data
| ID | 8075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A L Cabezas |
| GIVEN NAMES | A L |
| FAMILY NAME | Cabezas |
| SIGNATURE | CABEZAS A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3129-8025 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Global sex work research collaborations before the anti-trafficking industry: A conversation with Kamala Kempadoo and Amalia Cabezas
The special issue co-editors (Lyndsey Beutin, April Petillo, and Elena Shih) sat down with Kamala Kempadoo and long-time collaborator Amalia Cabezas on July 26, 2024, over Zoom to hear about what sex work research was like before the anti-trafficking framework cannibalized the sex workers' rights movement
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities
Volume IV examines the intersections of modernity and human sexuality through the forces, ideas, and events that have shaped the modern world. Through eighteen chapters, this volume examines connections between sexuality and the defining forces of modern global history including capitalism, colonialism, migration, consumerism, and war; sexuality in modern literature and print media; sexuality in dictatorships and democracies; and cultural changes…
Encontros íntimos: Economias afetivas em Cuba e na República Dominicana
Resultado de uma pesquisa realizada em Cuba e na República Dominicana, este artigo explora os usos da intimidade tanto no setor corporativo quanto nas relações românticas. Utilizo dados obtidos em entrevistas com trabalhadores de hotéis e com pessoas envolvidas em trocas afetivo-sexuais conectadas ao turismo para relacionar a intimidade às estruturas políticas e econômicas do turismo transnacional. Esses novos campos de análise revelam práticas d…
Overjoyed Homegirl
The first time I watched Mosquita y Mari (2012), I felt overjoyed by Aurora Guerrero's success. I first met her in the nineties, when she was a student in an undergraduate course in Chicano studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where I worked as the teaching assistant. Aurora was a vibrant, intelligent, and inquisitive undergraduate student. I was a lost graduate student trying to navigate the maze of graduate courses and requirement…
Latin American and Caribbean Sex Workers: Gains and challenges in the movement
This article challenges the notion that the organised sex worker movement originated in the Global North. Beginning in Havana, Cuba at the end of the nineteenth century, sex workers in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region have been organising for recognition and labour rights. This article focuses on some of the movement’s advances, such as the election of a sex worker to public office in the Dominican Republic, the system where Nicaragua…
Discourses of Prostitution
During the past five years, Cuba&s;s re-entry into tourism and the resurgence of sex work have been regularly featured in U. S. popular media. Information disseminated about Cuban women and sex workers in popular U. S. media, as well as in scholarly publications, replicate the dominant discourse on prostitution, ignore the points of resistance of the sexual revolution, and fail to contextualize these studies within an historical and economic fram…
A World of People
La Union Unica was founded in 1993, after there were closures of bars and discos. It is an association that does not distinguish between sex workers and business owners. The workers have to support the business owners, because if they do not, people have no place to work. If one is a sex worker he/she cannot work on their own terms. There is always someone behind a person, to whom one gives one half of their earnings. The money that the businesse…
El paradigma discursivo en torno a la «víctima de trata». Intervención social con mujeres dominicanas en Puerto Rico
En este artículo queremos exponer algunos avances de una investigación que estamos llevando a cabo sobre el trabajo que realizan las mujeres dominicanas en cantinas en Puerto Rico y el acceso de estas al sistema de protección social estadounidense. Nos hemos acercado a esta realidad utilizando la metodología etnográfica, haciendo trabajo de campo en 2014. En este ámbito nos ha interesado el discurso producido por agentes gubernamentales y no gube…
Mulheres dominicanas invisíveis: Discursos de tráfico de pessoas em Porto Rico
Relatos terríveis de contrabando e tráfico de pessoas da República Dominicana em direção a Porto Rico atraiu a atenção da mídia nos últimos 20 anos. Baseado em entrevistas com agentes governamentais e não governamentais, este artigo examina a invisibilidade das necessidades e problemas de dominicanos em Porto Rico. Eu argumento que em conjunção com sua omnipresença em espaços de trabalho íntimos, frequentemente sexualizados (bares, cafés, espaços…
Sexual revolutions in Cuba: Passions, Politics and Memory
CARRIE HAMILTON, 2012, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012, 298 pp, ISBN 9780807835197, £56.93 (hardback) Cuban sexual politics have received an inordinate amount of attention
Intimate Encounters: Affective Economies in Cuba and the Dominican Republic
Drawing on research in Cuba and the Dominican Republic this paper explores the uses of intimacy in both the corporate sector and in romantic relationships. I use research with hotel workers and with people involved in sexual-affective exchanges connected to tourism to link intimacy to the political economic structures of transnational tourism. These are new spaces of analysis that present practices of transnational corporategenerated intimacy tha…
Tropical Blues: Tourism and Social Exclusion in the Dominican Republic
Tourism development is the backbone of many Caribbean economies, and its advocates argue that it contributes to sustainable development, the alleviation of poverty, and integration into the globalized economy. Scholars and activists, in contrast, point to tourism-related ecological deterioration, profit leakage, distorted cultural patterns, rising land values, and prostitution. They suggest that tourism perpetuates existing disparities, fiscal pr…
The Eroticization of Labor in Cuba's All-Inclusive Resorts: Performing Race, Class and Gender in the New Tourist Economy
This paper examines the eroticization of labour in Cuba's new, all-inclusive beach resorts where workers are asked to enact scripts of affective labour, sexual enticement, and servility in the delivery of their occupational roles. Most studies of sexualized labour argue that workers’ resistance is found in not complying with management's exigencies. Instead, in this paper I argue that workers’ resistance can be found in the appropriation of their…
Emergent Subjects of Neoliberal Global Capitalism
Introduction: Emergent Subjects of Neoliberal Global Capitalism
Between Love and Money: Sex, Tourism, and Citizenship in Cuba and the Dominican Republic
The Eroticization of Labor in Cuba's All-Inclusive Resorts: Performing Race, Class and Gender in the New Tourist Economy
This paper examines the eroticization of labour in Cuba's new, all-inclusive beach resorts where workers are asked to enact scripts of affective labour, sexual enticement, and servility in the delivery of their occupational roles. Most studies of sexualized labour argue that workers’ resistance is found in not complying with management's exigencies. Instead, in this paper I argue that workers’ resistance can be found in the appropriation of their…
Tropical Blues: Tourism and Social Exclusion in the Dominican Republic
Tourism development is the backbone of many Caribbean economies, and its advocates argue that it contributes to sustainable development, the alleviation of poverty, and integration into the globalized economy. Scholars and activists, in contrast, point to tourism-related ecological deterioration, profit leakage, distorted cultural patterns, rising land values, and prostitution. They suggest that tourism perpetuates existing disparities, fiscal pr…
Mulheres dominicanas invisíveis: Discursos de tráfico de pessoas em Porto Rico
Relatos terríveis de contrabando e tráfico de pessoas da República Dominicana em direção a Porto Rico atraiu a atenção da mídia nos últimos 20 anos. Baseado em entrevistas com agentes governamentais e não governamentais, este artigo examina a invisibilidade das necessidades e problemas de dominicanos em Porto Rico. Eu argumento que em conjunção com sua omnipresença em espaços de trabalho íntimos, frequentemente sexualizados (bares, cafés, espaços…
Intimate Encounters: Affective Economies in Cuba and the Dominican Republic
Drawing on research in Cuba and the Dominican Republic this paper explores the uses of intimacy in both the corporate sector and in romantic relationships. I use research with hotel workers and with people involved in sexual-affective exchanges connected to tourism to link intimacy to the political economic structures of transnational tourism. These are new spaces of analysis that present practices of transnational corporategenerated intimacy tha…
Between Love and Money: Sex, Tourism, and Citizenship in Cuba and the Dominican Republic
The Eroticization of Labor in Cuba's All-Inclusive Resorts: Performing Race, Class and Gender in the New Tourist Economy
This paper examines the eroticization of labour in Cuba's new, all-inclusive beach resorts where workers are asked to enact scripts of affective labour, sexual enticement, and servility in the delivery of their occupational roles. Most studies of sexualized labour argue that workers’ resistance is found in not complying with management's exigencies. Instead, in this paper I argue that workers’ resistance can be found in the appropriation of their…
Emergent Subjects of Neoliberal Global Capitalism
Introduction: Emergent Subjects of Neoliberal Global Capitalism
Tropical Blues: Tourism and Social Exclusion in the Dominican Republic
Tourism development is the backbone of many Caribbean economies, and its advocates argue that it contributes to sustainable development, the alleviation of poverty, and integration into the globalized economy. Scholars and activists, in contrast, point to tourism-related ecological deterioration, profit leakage, distorted cultural patterns, rising land values, and prostitution. They suggest that tourism perpetuates existing disparities, fiscal pr…
Intimate Encounters: Affective Economies in Cuba and the Dominican Republic
Drawing on research in Cuba and the Dominican Republic this paper explores the uses of intimacy in both the corporate sector and in romantic relationships. I use research with hotel workers and with people involved in sexual-affective exchanges connected to tourism to link intimacy to the political economic structures of transnational tourism. These are new spaces of analysis that present practices of transnational corporategenerated intimacy tha…
Sexual revolutions in Cuba: Passions, Politics and Memory
CARRIE HAMILTON, 2012, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012, 298 pp, ISBN 9780807835197, £56.93 (hardback) Cuban sexual politics have received an inordinate amount of attention
Mulheres dominicanas invisíveis: Discursos de tráfico de pessoas em Porto Rico
Relatos terríveis de contrabando e tráfico de pessoas da República Dominicana em direção a Porto Rico atraiu a atenção da mídia nos últimos 20 anos. Baseado em entrevistas com agentes governamentais e não governamentais, este artigo examina a invisibilidade das necessidades e problemas de dominicanos em Porto Rico. Eu argumento que em conjunção com sua omnipresença em espaços de trabalho íntimos, frequentemente sexualizados (bares, cafés, espaços…
El paradigma discursivo en torno a la «víctima de trata». Intervención social con mujeres dominicanas en Puerto Rico
En este artículo queremos exponer algunos avances de una investigación que estamos llevando a cabo sobre el trabajo que realizan las mujeres dominicanas en cantinas en Puerto Rico y el acceso de estas al sistema de protección social estadounidense. Nos hemos acercado a esta realidad utilizando la metodología etnográfica, haciendo trabajo de campo en 2014. En este ámbito nos ha interesado el discurso producido por agentes gubernamentales y no gube…
Discourses of Prostitution
During the past five years, Cuba&s;s re-entry into tourism and the resurgence of sex work have been regularly featured in U. S. popular media. Information disseminated about Cuban women and sex workers in popular U. S. media, as well as in scholarly publications, replicate the dominant discourse on prostitution, ignore the points of resistance of the sexual revolution, and fail to contextualize these studies within an historical and economic fram…
A World of People
La Union Unica was founded in 1993, after there were closures of bars and discos. It is an association that does not distinguish between sex workers and business owners. The workers have to support the business owners, because if they do not, people have no place to work. If one is a sex worker he/she cannot work on their own terms. There is always someone behind a person, to whom one gives one half of their earnings. The money that the businesse…
Latin American and Caribbean Sex Workers: Gains and challenges in the movement
This article challenges the notion that the organised sex worker movement originated in the Global North. Beginning in Havana, Cuba at the end of the nineteenth century, sex workers in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region have been organising for recognition and labour rights. This article focuses on some of the movement’s advances, such as the election of a sex worker to public office in the Dominican Republic, the system where Nicaragua…
Overjoyed Homegirl
The first time I watched Mosquita y Mari (2012), I felt overjoyed by Aurora Guerrero's success. I first met her in the nineties, when she was a student in an undergraduate course in Chicano studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where I worked as the teaching assistant. Aurora was a vibrant, intelligent, and inquisitive undergraduate student. I was a lost graduate student trying to navigate the maze of graduate courses and requirement…
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities
Volume IV examines the intersections of modernity and human sexuality through the forces, ideas, and events that have shaped the modern world. Through eighteen chapters, this volume examines connections between sexuality and the defining forces of modern global history including capitalism, colonialism, migration, consumerism, and war; sexuality in modern literature and print media; sexuality in dictatorships and democracies; and cultural changes…
Encontros íntimos: Economias afetivas em Cuba e na República Dominicana
Resultado de uma pesquisa realizada em Cuba e na República Dominicana, este artigo explora os usos da intimidade tanto no setor corporativo quanto nas relações românticas. Utilizo dados obtidos em entrevistas com trabalhadores de hotéis e com pessoas envolvidas em trocas afetivo-sexuais conectadas ao turismo para relacionar a intimidade às estruturas políticas e econômicas do turismo transnacional. Esses novos campos de análise revelam práticas d…
Global sex work research collaborations before the anti-trafficking industry: A conversation with Kamala Kempadoo and Amalia Cabezas
The special issue co-editors (Lyndsey Beutin, April Petillo, and Elena Shih) sat down with Kamala Kempadoo and long-time collaborator Amalia Cabezas on July 26, 2024, over Zoom to hear about what sex work research was like before the anti-trafficking framework cannibalized the sex workers' rights movement
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Sex work and related issues (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Cuban History and Society (4 works) · Tourism (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Human sexuality (3 works)