Sex and the revanchist city: zoning out pornography in New York
Sex and the revanchist city: zoning out pornography in New York
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DOI：
10.1068/d10s
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发表时间：
2000-06-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Papayanis, MA
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作者：
Papayanis, MA
本文调查了纽约市通过颁布分区法来规范色情物品销售的社会、经济、法律和文化因素。扫黄运动是一个团结的点，许多不同的、经常是敌对的利益集团聚集在一起，以社区的名义（好像这个词本身是透明和单一的）重新夺回公共空间。它与中产阶级化和社会经济动态有关，这些动态是尼尔·史密斯（Neil Smith）所描述的复仇主义城市出现的基础。“生活质量”问题委婉地表达了对城市景观的驯化和净化，城市景观的无序不仅体现在大量无家可归的人的存在上，而且还体现在与xxx级企业相关的色情图片的怪异展示上。通过关注话语策略，试图识别性商店与所谓的“次要影响”，如犯罪率上升和财产价值下降，我的目标是揭示塑造城市景观的社会偏见和经济动机。我认为，在纽约市将色情内容隔离开来的举措是在更大的空间实践中形成的，这些实践既能最大限度地提高社会空间的生产力，又能再现大多数人的社会价值。
This paper is an investigation of the social, economic, legal, and cultural factors underlying the move, in New York City, to regulate the sale of pornographic materials through the promulgation of zoning laws. The campaign to zone out pornography, a point of solidarity around which a number of disparate and often hostile interest groups have rallied in order to reclaim public space in the name of community (as though the term itself were transparent and monovocal) is linked to both gentrification and the socioeconomic dynamics underlying the emergence of what Neil Smith has characterized as the revanchist city. 'Quality of life' issues stand euphemistically for the domestication and sanitization of an urban landscape whose perceived unruliness is emblematized not only by the presence of large numbers of homeless people, but also by the outre display of sexually explicit imagery associated with XXX-rated businesses. By focusing on the discursive strategies that seek to identify sex shops with so-called 'secondary impacts' such as increased crime and decreasing property values, I aim to uncover the social biases and economic motivations that work to shape the urban landscape. I argue that the move to zone out pornography in New York City is imbricated within larger spatial practices that operate both to maximize the productivity of social space and to reproduce the social values of the majority.