Dafna Rachok
Biographic Data
| ID | 212469 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dafna Rachok |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dafna |
| FAMILY NAME | Rachok |
| SIGNATURE | RACHOK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4162-2194 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Searching for therapeutic connections
This article addresses healthcare experiences of Ukrainian refugee women with HIV in the EU. It shows that refugee expectations of healthcare starkly contrasted with their lived experiences. To explain this mismatch, I introduce the idea of therapeutic connections. Building upon the concepts of biosociality and the Imaginary West, I show that refugees' pursuit of HIV treatment in their host countries was about seeking both medicine and therapeuti…
Honesty and economy on a highway
Sex work provides a particularly good example to consider the relationships of money, authenticity, and intimacy. Many scholars who research intimacy point to the fact that seeing sex work as an exchange of money (or goods) for sex is a simplistic and reductive approach. Building on the existing research that complicates the idea of sex work as an emotionally detached sex-for-money transaction, this article looks at the coexistence of references …
Nothing about Us without Us
How do vulnerable populations engage with politics? And what does politics mean to them? Building on four months of ethnographic fieldwork and 15 semistructured interviews with sex workers in Kropyvnyts'kyi, Ukraine, I show how informal political practices are employed by marginalised groups like sex workers to promote their agenda of the normalisation of sex work. Examining sex workers' activism in Ukraine through empowerment strategies and resi…
Honesty and economy on a highway
Sex work provides a particularly good example to consider the relationships of money, authenticity, and intimacy. Many scholars who research intimacy point to the fact that seeing sex work as an exchange of money (or goods) for sex is a simplistic and reductive approach. Building on the existing research that complicates the idea of sex work as an emotionally detached sex-for-money transaction, this article looks at the coexistence of references …
Nothing about Us without Us
How do vulnerable populations engage with politics? And what does politics mean to them? Building on four months of ethnographic fieldwork and 15 semistructured interviews with sex workers in Kropyvnyts'kyi, Ukraine, I show how informal political practices are employed by marginalised groups like sex workers to promote their agenda of the normalisation of sex work. Examining sex workers' activism in Ukraine through empowerment strategies and resi…
Nothing about Us without Us
How do vulnerable populations engage with politics? And what does politics mean to them? Building on four months of ethnographic fieldwork and 15 semistructured interviews with sex workers in Kropyvnyts'kyi, Ukraine, I show how informal political practices are employed by marginalised groups like sex workers to promote their agenda of the normalisation of sex work. Examining sex workers' activism in Ukraine through empowerment strategies and resi…
Honesty and economy on a highway
Sex work provides a particularly good example to consider the relationships of money, authenticity, and intimacy. Many scholars who research intimacy point to the fact that seeing sex work as an exchange of money (or goods) for sex is a simplistic and reductive approach. Building on the existing research that complicates the idea of sex work as an emotionally detached sex-for-money transaction, this article looks at the coexistence of references …
Searching for therapeutic connections
This article addresses healthcare experiences of Ukrainian refugee women with HIV in the EU. It shows that refugee expectations of healthcare starkly contrasted with their lived experiences. To explain this mismatch, I introduce the idea of therapeutic connections. Building upon the concepts of biosociality and the Imaginary West, I show that refugees' pursuit of HIV treatment in their host countries was about seeking both medicine and therapeuti…
Sex work and related issues (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Sex work (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Affection (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Economic growth (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · Empowerment (1 work)