Megan Rivers‐moore
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 295058 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Megan Rivers‐moore |
| PRENOMES | Megan |
| SOBRENOME | Rivers‐moore |
| ASSINATURA | MOORE M R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Carleton University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Almost paradise
Based on in-depth interviews with North American men who have migrated to San José, Costa Rica, this article examines how sexuality and masculinity shape transnational mobility. While these migrants distinguish themselves from sex tourists, their migration trajectories are closely linked to prior participation in the local sex industry. Drawing on queer migration scholarship and research on lifestyle migration, the article argues that heterosexua…
Organising Beyond the Employment Relationship
Sex workers lack structural power; they cannot withdraw their labour to stop production and most do not have a single employer with whom to collectively bargain. The absence of ‘wage-effort bargaining’ has led to conclusions that these workers cannot form successful unions. Yet own-account informal workers in the Global South have routinely organised outside employment relationships and wage-effort bargaining. Organisational forms amongst such wo…
We Fight with God's Weapons
Based on ethnographic research in San José, Costa Rica, this article analyzes the relationships that sex workers have with an evangelical Christian nongovernmental organization (NGO) aimed at helping them exit the sex industry. Sex workers participate in a form of emotional labor that I call “pragmatic penance,” the strategic performance of victimhood in exchange for support from the NGO. I argue that both how sex workers are helped and how sex w…
Esperarás y esperarás
A partir de una investigación etnográfica en una clínica pública de prevención del VIH/SIDA, este artículo analiza la cambiante relación entre las trabajadoras del sexo y el Estado costarricense y destaca que el Estado se define por un movimiento significativo desde la represión colectiva hacia el individualismo neoliberal. A cambio de las redadas sanitarias indiscriminadas y el encarcelamiento masivo del pasado, el acto de esperar a los servicio…
Sex Tourism in Bahia
Waiting for the State
Focussing primarily on a public HIV/AIDS prevention clinic, this article considers the changing relationship between sex workers and the Costa Rican state, demonstrating that the state's approach to policing the sex industry has been defined by a shift from collective repression to neoliberal individualism. Instead of the indiscriminate sanitary raids and mass incarceration of the past, waiting for health care has come to play a central role in h…
Affective sex
This article considers the role of beauty in Costa Rican sex work. In the context of sex tourism, beauty operates as affective labour performed by sex workers, labour that is mediated by deeply contradictory understandings of race and nation. Theorising beauty as a form of affective labour means thinking about beauty as value, as something that circulates, can be exchanged and is ultimately relational. While Costa Rica's national mythology has lo…
Almighty gringos
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with sex tourists in San José, Costa Rica, this article explores the connections between masculinity and the production of value in sex tourism. I argue that in the context of increasing opportunities for travel and technological innovations, North American masculine identities have become transnational, including for non-elite men. Sex tourists’ descriptions of their experiences reveal that they a…
But the kids are okay
Although sex work remains highly stigmatized around the world, its relatively high value (when compared to other kinds of work available for low-income women) allows sex workers to attain some level of economic, if not social, mobility. This article challenges the idea that sex work in 'third world' settings is always about mere subsistence. Instead, it suggests that sex workers in Costa Rica's tourism sector work to survive, but they also demons…
Gender and Nationalism in Latin America
No Artificial Ingredients
Costa Rica is often considered to be of particular interest in Central America because of the features that set it apart in the region: a tradition of strong democracy, low levels of corruption, an
But the kids are okay
Although sex work remains highly stigmatized around the world, its relatively high value (when compared to other kinds of work available for low-income women) allows sex workers to attain some level of economic, if not social, mobility. This article challenges the idea that sex work in 'third world' settings is always about mere subsistence. Instead, it suggests that sex workers in Costa Rica's tourism sector work to survive, but they also demons…
No Artificial Ingredients
Costa Rica is often considered to be of particular interest in Central America because of the features that set it apart in the region: a tradition of strong democracy, low levels of corruption, an
Affective sex
This article considers the role of beauty in Costa Rican sex work. In the context of sex tourism, beauty operates as affective labour performed by sex workers, labour that is mediated by deeply contradictory understandings of race and nation. Theorising beauty as a form of affective labour means thinking about beauty as value, as something that circulates, can be exchanged and is ultimately relational. While Costa Rica's national mythology has lo…
Waiting for the State
Focussing primarily on a public HIV/AIDS prevention clinic, this article considers the changing relationship between sex workers and the Costa Rican state, demonstrating that the state's approach to policing the sex industry has been defined by a shift from collective repression to neoliberal individualism. Instead of the indiscriminate sanitary raids and mass incarceration of the past, waiting for health care has come to play a central role in h…
We Fight with God's Weapons
Based on ethnographic research in San José, Costa Rica, this article analyzes the relationships that sex workers have with an evangelical Christian nongovernmental organization (NGO) aimed at helping them exit the sex industry. Sex workers participate in a form of emotional labor that I call “pragmatic penance,” the strategic performance of victimhood in exchange for support from the NGO. I argue that both how sex workers are helped and how sex w…
Sex Tourism in Bahia
Gender and Nationalism in Latin America
No Artificial Ingredients
Costa Rica is often considered to be of particular interest in Central America because of the features that set it apart in the region: a tradition of strong democracy, low levels of corruption, an
Gender and Nationalism in Latin America
But the kids are okay
Although sex work remains highly stigmatized around the world, its relatively high value (when compared to other kinds of work available for low-income women) allows sex workers to attain some level of economic, if not social, mobility. This article challenges the idea that sex work in 'third world' settings is always about mere subsistence. Instead, it suggests that sex workers in Costa Rica's tourism sector work to survive, but they also demons…
Almighty gringos
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with sex tourists in San José, Costa Rica, this article explores the connections between masculinity and the production of value in sex tourism. I argue that in the context of increasing opportunities for travel and technological innovations, North American masculine identities have become transnational, including for non-elite men. Sex tourists’ descriptions of their experiences reveal that they a…
Affective sex
This article considers the role of beauty in Costa Rican sex work. In the context of sex tourism, beauty operates as affective labour performed by sex workers, labour that is mediated by deeply contradictory understandings of race and nation. Theorising beauty as a form of affective labour means thinking about beauty as value, as something that circulates, can be exchanged and is ultimately relational. While Costa Rica's national mythology has lo…
Waiting for the State
Focussing primarily on a public HIV/AIDS prevention clinic, this article considers the changing relationship between sex workers and the Costa Rican state, demonstrating that the state's approach to policing the sex industry has been defined by a shift from collective repression to neoliberal individualism. Instead of the indiscriminate sanitary raids and mass incarceration of the past, waiting for health care has come to play a central role in h…
Esperarás y esperarás
A partir de una investigación etnográfica en una clínica pública de prevención del VIH/SIDA, este artículo analiza la cambiante relación entre las trabajadoras del sexo y el Estado costarricense y destaca que el Estado se define por un movimiento significativo desde la represión colectiva hacia el individualismo neoliberal. A cambio de las redadas sanitarias indiscriminadas y el encarcelamiento masivo del pasado, el acto de esperar a los servicio…
Sex Tourism in Bahia
We Fight with God's Weapons
Based on ethnographic research in San José, Costa Rica, this article analyzes the relationships that sex workers have with an evangelical Christian nongovernmental organization (NGO) aimed at helping them exit the sex industry. Sex workers participate in a form of emotional labor that I call “pragmatic penance,” the strategic performance of victimhood in exchange for support from the NGO. I argue that both how sex workers are helped and how sex w…
Almost paradise
Based on in-depth interviews with North American men who have migrated to San José, Costa Rica, this article examines how sexuality and masculinity shape transnational mobility. While these migrants distinguish themselves from sex tourists, their migration trajectories are closely linked to prior participation in the local sex industry. Drawing on queer migration scholarship and research on lifestyle migration, the article argues that heterosexua…
Organising Beyond the Employment Relationship
Sex workers lack structural power; they cannot withdraw their labour to stop production and most do not have a single employer with whom to collectively bargain. The absence of ‘wage-effort bargaining’ has led to conclusions that these workers cannot form successful unions. Yet own-account informal workers in the Global South have routinely organised outside employment relationships and wage-effort bargaining. Organisational forms amongst such wo…
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