Who and what does the UK sex worker movement represent?

英国性工作者运动代表谁、代表什么？

• 批准号: 1791659
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Sussex
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1791659
• 关键词: Who; what; does; UK; sex

Existing research on the relationship between UK sex workers and the state has so far failed to address a conflict at the heart of sex worker activism. In order to live viable lives, sex worker activists might be seen as being forced to appeal to governmentally-sanctioned channels for rights - in a form that could be labeled 'carceral' (Bernstein, 2012; Puar, 2007). Yet the movement's longstanding campaign for the full legal decriminalisation of consensual sex work may also be read as - at heart - an anti-state position. This project proposes a critical material investigation into the sex worker movement, exploring whether it might be situated in opposition to, and as a critique of, carceral activism. This intervention will begin by describing sex worker activism, looking at who sex worker activists are, and who their activism serves. I will also look at the broader relevance of this activism - exploring its wider social impact. I assert that the necropolitical framework formulated by Achille Mbembe, and applied by Jasbir Puar, Paul B. Preciado and others, is a key way to understand this undertheorized tension concerning sex work activism and how it relates to the state, enabling an engagement with regulatory legal models while setting up an anti-neoliberal, anti-nationalist standpoint.I have one preliminary research question: What and who does the contemporary UK sex workers' rights movement represent?Methodologically, this project will combine discourse analysis with social movement analysis. I will use an intersectional, queer and feminist methodology, drawing on the feminist epistomological work of Donna Haraway on 'situated knowledges', which challenges the idea of objective access to knowledge, and also looking to Kimberle Crenshaw, Sandra Harding and Aristea Fotopolou on intersectional methods. I will conduct around 25 semi-structured qualitative interviews with current or former sex worker rights activists, and use journalism and blogs, videos, leaflets, copy from activist webpages and policy papers as additional, complementary sources of data. With participants' informed consent, I will attend and observe group meetings, demos and more informal meet ups. In order to find interview participants, I am in the process of reaching out to five London-based organisations: the English Collective of Prostitutes, Sex Worker Open University (SWOU) the X-talk collective who run weekly sex worker breakfasts, East London Strippers' Collective (ELSC) and Sex Workers' Opera (SWO). I will also contact the Sex Workers' Alliance in Ireland and SCOT-PEP and the Global Network of Sex Worker Projects (GNSWP), both of which are based in Scotland. I aim to develop a closer collaboration with a small number of these groups - depending on need or overlap of research aims.Doing research with stigmatised groups raises a host of ethical issues, including exploitation or harm. (Phipps, 2015; Bhopal, 2015). As a sex worker I can to some extent speak from a position of situated or embodied knowledge of the issues raised by this project, though as a white and middle class journalist my experience is also one of privilege, which I will engage with reflexively. My involvement in sex working and queer and trans activist communities (between which there is overlap due to marginalisation) means that I already have friends and other contacts within sex worker groups - which will make it far more feasible for me to reach out to potential interviewees than for more outsider academics. My intention is to gain approval for the project before beginning it by opening it up to what the needs and desires of the movement currently are in terms of policy and public understanding.

现有的关于英国性工作者和国家之间关系的研究迄今未能解决性工作者维权运动的核心冲突。为了过上可行的生活，性工作者活动家可能被视为被迫诉诸政府认可的权利渠道--以一种可以被贴上"监狱"标签的形式（伯恩斯坦，2012年; Puar，2007年）。然而，该运动长期以来一直在争取将双方自愿的性工作完全法律的合法化，这也可能被解读为--从本质上--一种反政府的立场。这个项目提出了一个关键的材料调查性工作者运动，探讨它是否可能位于反对，并作为一个批评，监狱激进主义。本干预开始将描述性工作者的行动，看看谁是性工作者的积极分子，他们的行动服务。我还将研究这种行动主义的更广泛的相关性-探索其更广泛的社会影响。我断言，死亡政治的框架制定了Mbembe，并应用于Jasbir Puar，保罗B。Preciado和其他人，是一个关键的方式来理解这种undertheorized紧张局势有关性工作的行动主义，以及它如何与国家，使参与与监管法律的模型，同时建立一个反新自由主义，反民族主义的立场。我有一个初步的研究问题：什么和谁做当代英国性工作者的权利运动代表？在方法论上，本项目将联合收割机话语分析与社会运动分析相结合。我将使用交叉，酷儿和女权主义的方法，借鉴女性主义epistomological工作的唐娜哈拉维的“情境知识”，这挑战了客观获取知识的想法，也期待金伯利克伦肖，桑德拉哈丁和Aristea Fotopolou交叉的方法。我将对现任或前任性工作者权利活动家进行大约25次半结构化的定性采访，并使用新闻和博客，视频，传单，活动家网页和政策文件的副本作为额外的补充数据来源。在参与者知情同意的情况下，我将参加和观察小组会议，演示和更多的非正式会议。为了找到面试参与者，我正在接触五个伦敦的组织：英国妓女集体，性工作者开放大学（SWEARS），每周举办性工作者早餐会的X-talk集体，东伦敦脱衣舞娘集体（ELSC）和性工作者歌剧院（SWO）。我还将联系爱尔兰的性工作者联盟、SCOT-PEP和全球性工作者项目网络，这两个组织都设在苏格兰。我的目标是与这些群体中的一小部分发展更密切的合作-这取决于研究目标的需要或重叠。与污名化群体进行研究会引发一系列伦理问题，包括剥削或伤害。（Phipps，2015; Bhopal，2015）。作为一名性工作者，我在某种程度上可以从一个位置上谈论这个项目所提出的问题，尽管作为一名白色和中产阶级记者，我的经历也是一种特权，我将条件反射地参与其中。我参与性工作和同性恋和跨性别活动家社区（由于边缘化，两者之间存在重叠）意味着我已经在性工作者团体中有朋友和其他联系人-这将使我接触潜在的受访者比更多的局外学者更可行。我的意图是在开始之前获得对该项目的批准，通过开放它来满足该运动目前在政策和公众理解方面的需求和愿望。