Gowri Vijayakumar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 99722 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gowri Vijayakumar |
| NOMBRES | Gowri |
| APELLIDO | Vijayakumar |
| FIRMA | VIJAYAKUMAR G |
| AFILIACIONES | Brandeis University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2532-8083 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Reimagine Aid, Don’t Destroy It
“A little love is enough for me to live my life…”
Most research on sex workers globally has focused on cis women sex workers vulnerabilities including violence, risk for HIV/AIDS, and stigma. Despite the plethora of studies on the topic, older sex workers are significantly underrepresented in research. We used a phenomenological approach to highlight street and home-based sex workers' experiences. Using a purposive sampling strategy, 39 cis women sex workers were recruited from Karnataka, India …
Toward Transnational Feminist Methodologies in Global Health
On the paradoxes of feminist praxis
This essay is part of a forum on Srila Roy's (2022) book, Changing the Subject. I suggest that Roy's book offers a way to sit with the paradoxes of feminist praxis by engaging with its everyday messiness and conflict. I read Roy's book through the lens of my research with sex worker activists in India, focusing on how Roy's attention to ambivalence helped me to rethink my analysis. Through ethnography, the book shows how her interlocutors strateg…
Sociology of South Asia
Sociology of South Asia
Between pandemics
Public health crises alter political landscapes. This article investigates social movement strategies during and between the HIV and COVID-19 pandemics. We conducted a set of eighteen in-depth interviews with eleven leaders of organisations working with sex workers, sexual minorities, and transgender people around India, all of whom had been actively involved in HIV prevention programs, before and after the arrival of COVID-19 in India. First HIV…
India and Africa in the pandemic imagination
In moments of disease panic, sex workers in India have been both abandoned and targeted, subjects of simultaneous fascination, pity, and fear. This article traces the reproduction of a link between sex work and disease, through syphilis, HIV, and COVID-19. In particular, it analyzes popular media and public health literature on the early HIV epidemic in India to emphasize the centrality of transnational comparison and South-South expert linkages,…
Labors of Love
While feminist scholarship has worked to expand theorizations of sex work as reproductive labor, fewer scholars elaborate on sex workers’ role in caring work as mothers. This article draws on interviews with fifty-two cisgender women sex workers in Bangalore to argue that, for them, sex work is central to being a good mother, in a context of increasing economic precarity combined with intensified demands on mothers to provide children with middle…
Risk and Respectability
Legalizing Sex
Sexual Laborers and Entrepreneurial Women
This article uses ethnographic and interview methods to compare two groups of sex workers in Bangalore, both of which formed during the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In this context, donor priorities fundamentally shaped the landscape for sex worker organizations, but the two groups formed very different collective identities. I argue that the content of collective identity is not predetermined by the conditions set by global Northern fundin…
Sex Work, Marginalization, and Activism in India
Is Sex Work Sex or Work? Forming Collective Identity in Bangalore
Collective demands and secret codes
Servants of Globalization
Sex Workers Join the Indian Labor Movement
I'll Be Like Water
This article examines the ways in which ideologies of aspiration, inclusion, and women's empowerment associated with India's globalizing knowledge economy are re-framed by young women workers in a small-town business-process outsourcing (BPO) center two hours outside of Bangalore. Drawing on forty in-depth interviews, I show that, in contrast to their managers' expectations of individualized work aspirations, women workers draw on both individual…
I'll Be Like Water
This article examines the ways in which ideologies of aspiration, inclusion, and women's empowerment associated with India's globalizing knowledge economy are re-framed by young women workers in a small-town business-process outsourcing (BPO) center two hours outside of Bangalore. Drawing on forty in-depth interviews, I show that, in contrast to their managers' expectations of individualized work aspirations, women workers draw on both individual…
Is Sex Work Sex or Work? Forming Collective Identity in Bangalore
Collective demands and secret codes
Sex Work, Marginalization, and Activism in India
Labors of Love
While feminist scholarship has worked to expand theorizations of sex work as reproductive labor, fewer scholars elaborate on sex workers’ role in caring work as mothers. This article draws on interviews with fifty-two cisgender women sex workers in Bangalore to argue that, for them, sex work is central to being a good mother, in a context of increasing economic precarity combined with intensified demands on mothers to provide children with middle…
Legalizing Sex
Toward Transnational Feminist Methodologies in Global Health
India and Africa in the pandemic imagination
In moments of disease panic, sex workers in India have been both abandoned and targeted, subjects of simultaneous fascination, pity, and fear. This article traces the reproduction of a link between sex work and disease, through syphilis, HIV, and COVID-19. In particular, it analyzes popular media and public health literature on the early HIV epidemic in India to emphasize the centrality of transnational comparison and South-South expert linkages,…
Risk and Respectability
Sexual Laborers and Entrepreneurial Women
This article uses ethnographic and interview methods to compare two groups of sex workers in Bangalore, both of which formed during the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In this context, donor priorities fundamentally shaped the landscape for sex worker organizations, but the two groups formed very different collective identities. I argue that the content of collective identity is not predetermined by the conditions set by global Northern fundin…
I'll Be Like Water
This article examines the ways in which ideologies of aspiration, inclusion, and women's empowerment associated with India's globalizing knowledge economy are re-framed by young women workers in a small-town business-process outsourcing (BPO) center two hours outside of Bangalore. Drawing on forty in-depth interviews, I show that, in contrast to their managers' expectations of individualized work aspirations, women workers draw on both individual…
Sex Workers Join the Indian Labor Movement
Servants of Globalization
Collective demands and secret codes
Is Sex Work Sex or Work? Forming Collective Identity in Bangalore
Sexual Laborers and Entrepreneurial Women
This article uses ethnographic and interview methods to compare two groups of sex workers in Bangalore, both of which formed during the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In this context, donor priorities fundamentally shaped the landscape for sex worker organizations, but the two groups formed very different collective identities. I argue that the content of collective identity is not predetermined by the conditions set by global Northern fundin…
Sex Work, Marginalization, and Activism in India
Risk and Respectability
Legalizing Sex
Sociology of South Asia
Sociology of South Asia
Between pandemics
Public health crises alter political landscapes. This article investigates social movement strategies during and between the HIV and COVID-19 pandemics. We conducted a set of eighteen in-depth interviews with eleven leaders of organisations working with sex workers, sexual minorities, and transgender people around India, all of whom had been actively involved in HIV prevention programs, before and after the arrival of COVID-19 in India. First HIV…
India and Africa in the pandemic imagination
In moments of disease panic, sex workers in India have been both abandoned and targeted, subjects of simultaneous fascination, pity, and fear. This article traces the reproduction of a link between sex work and disease, through syphilis, HIV, and COVID-19. In particular, it analyzes popular media and public health literature on the early HIV epidemic in India to emphasize the centrality of transnational comparison and South-South expert linkages,…
Labors of Love
While feminist scholarship has worked to expand theorizations of sex work as reproductive labor, fewer scholars elaborate on sex workers’ role in caring work as mothers. This article draws on interviews with fifty-two cisgender women sex workers in Bangalore to argue that, for them, sex work is central to being a good mother, in a context of increasing economic precarity combined with intensified demands on mothers to provide children with middle…
Toward Transnational Feminist Methodologies in Global Health
On the paradoxes of feminist praxis
This essay is part of a forum on Srila Roy's (2022) book, Changing the Subject. I suggest that Roy's book offers a way to sit with the paradoxes of feminist praxis by engaging with its everyday messiness and conflict. I read Roy's book through the lens of my research with sex worker activists in India, focusing on how Roy's attention to ambivalence helped me to rethink my analysis. Through ethnography, the book shows how her interlocutors strateg…
“A little love is enough for me to live my life…”
Most research on sex workers globally has focused on cis women sex workers vulnerabilities including violence, risk for HIV/AIDS, and stigma. Despite the plethora of studies on the topic, older sex workers are significantly underrepresented in research. We used a phenomenological approach to highlight street and home-based sex workers' experiences. Using a purposive sampling strategy, 39 cis women sex workers were recruited from Karnataka, India …
Reimagine Aid, Don’t Destroy It
Sociology (16 obras) · Gender Studies (12 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Sex work and related issues (10 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Anthropology (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Sex work (6 obras)