Can sex workers regulate police? Learning from an HIV prevention project for sex workers in southern India
Can sex workers regulate police? Learning from an HIV prevention project for sex workers in southern India
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DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.01.040
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发表时间：
2009-04-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Blankenship, Kim M.
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作者：
Biradavolu, Monica Rao;Burris, Scott;Blankenship, Kim M.
有一种观点认为，治安做法会加剧艾滋病毒风险，特别是对女性性工作者来说。动员性工作者寻求改变法律和执法做法的干预措施在印度一直很突出，并得到了相当大的学术关注。然而，对于性工作者倡导者用来改变警察行为的策略，或者他们在挑战国家机构时面临的斗争，很少有研究。本文利用当代治理和非国家监管理论，分析了印度南部艾滋病预防非政府组织(NCO)和女性性工作者社区组织(CBO)改革警察实践的不断演变的战略。通过对两年来非政府组织和CBO活动的详细人种学观察，以及对性交易中各种行为者的关键线人访谈，本文展示了一群无能为力的边缘化和被污名化的妇女如何能够利用社区赋权、集体行动和基于网络的治理的综合力量来监管强大的国家行为者，并考虑了倡导战略对性工作者福祉的影响。(C)2009爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
There is an argument that policing practices exacerbate HIV risk, particularly for female sex workers. Interventions that mobilize sex workers to seek changes in laws and law enforcement practices have been prominent in India and have received considerable scholarly attention. Yet, there are few studies on the strategies sex worker advocates use to modify police behavior or the struggles they face in challenging state institutions. This paper draws upon contemporary theories of governance and non-state regulation to analyze the evolving strategies of an HIV prevention non-governmental organization (NCO) and female sex worker community-based organizations (CBOs) to reform police practices in southern India. Using detailed ethnographic observations of NGO and CBO activities over a two year period, and key informant interviews with various actors in the sex trade, this paper shows how a powerless group of marginalized and stigmatized women were able to leverage the combined forces of community empowerment, collective action and network-based governance to regulate a powerful state actor, and considers the impact of the advocacy strategies on sex worker well-being. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.