Living with the Other: Street sex work, contingent communities and degrees of tolerance
Living with the Other: Street sex work, contingent communities and degrees of tolerance
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与他人共处：街头性工作、临时社区和容忍程度
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2008
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J. Scoular
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M. O’Neill;Rosie Campbell;P. Hubbard;Jane Pitcher;J. Scoular
有大量文献表明，对其他人群的恐惧如何促使西方城市中心的公共空间加强监视和监管。然而，与市中心以消费者为导向的空间相比，人们对中心城市以外住宅区街道空间质量的关注相对较少。在本文中，我们探讨了媒体将性工作者描述为卑鄙和被定罪的其他人如何影响这些社区居民对街头性工作的反应。借鉴我们在许多英国城市的工作，我们强调了居民对街头性工作表现出不同程度的容忍度。根据内政部战略文件《协调卖淫战略》，本文最后提倡将参与性行动研究和社区会议作为解决冲突和减轻对差异的恐惧的手段。
There is substantial literature on how fears of Other populations are prompting the increased surveillance and regulation of public spaces at the heart of Western cities. Yet, in contrast to the consumer-oriented spaces of the city centre, there has been relatively little attention devoted to the quality of the street spaces in residential neighbourhoods beyond the central city. In this article, we explore how media representations of sex workers as an abject and criminalized Other inform the reactions of residents to street sex work in such communities. Drawing on our work in a number of British cities we highlight the different degrees of tolerance which residents express towards street sex work. In light of the Home Office strategy document, A Coordinated Prostitution Strategy, this article concludes by advocating participatory action research and community conferencing as a means of resolving conflicts and assuaging fears of difference.