Threats, Victims and Unimaginable Subjects of Rights

A Genealogy of Sex Worker Governance in Poland

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12967632
AutoresAgata Dziuban (0000-0003-1135-2477, Jagiellonian University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen18
Número2
Páginas243-263
Fecha de publicación2024-04-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaStudies in Social Justice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1911-4788 • E-ISSN: 1911-4788
EditorialBrock University Library (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.26522/ssj.v18i2.4382
OpenAlexW4393987466
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas20

This paper sketches the emergence of, and shifts within, the social, legal, and political figurations of sex workers in Poland. By adopting a genealogical perspective, I investigate how sex workers have been (re)constituted as subjects of governance and unimaginable social justice claimants in legislation, political debates, and law enforcement strategies. With a broad temporal scope, this article traces continuities, transformations, and disruptions within modes of sex work governance in Poland from the adoption of the first laws relating to sex work enacted during the early 19th century to the present day. Through analysis of policy documents, scholarly work on the history of sex work policies in Poland, and personal accounts by sex workers, I identify and examine two dominant discursive and legal figurations of a sex worker: as a threat, and as a victim in need of rescue and protection. While analysing the emergence of and interplay between these two figurations, this article demonstrates how these seemingly contradictory frames of recognition gradually conjoined within 20th-century Polish sex work governance strategies, rendering sex workers unimaginable subjects of rights and social justice claimants

Corporate governance · Economics · Genealogy · Management · Political science · Sex workers · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Law · Sex work and related issues