Mapping Trends: Power imbalances and the circulation of information on sex work
Laura Murray, Elsa Oliveira and Debolina Dutta (2018), Mapping Trends: Power Imbalances and the Circulation of Information on Sex Work, in SexPolitics: Trends & Tensions in the 21st Century – Critical Issues. [OPEN ACCESS]
Abstract:
In this article, we map global and regional trends in information produced about sex work in an effort to shed light on these imbalances. Based in the global South, we are researchers and activists who work and act politically from a sex worker rights perspective. We believe that it is important to step back and look critically at the field in which we all are engaged. In doing so, we highlight the importance of equalising, or at the very least, reducing the research/activist/policy-making divides and making research practices more accountable to its subjects. Drawing on specific examples from the respective countries where we, the authors, live and work, we also highlight the kinds of important work being done by sex worker activists across the globe. Although our findings do not include all of the material available, we seek to offer an overview of what is being produced about sex work, identify trends in the power imbalances inherent in contemporary sex work research, and suggest possible paths forward to reduce the disparities between sex workers’ lived experiences and policies made about them.
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