Laura Rebecca Murray
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 95783 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Laura Rebecca Murray |
| PRENOMES | Laura Rebecca |
| SOBRENOME | Murray |
| ASSINATURA | MURRAY L R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6245-2227 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Evita, mas não elimina
Nas últimas quatro décadas, pesquisas têm comprovado, junto com o ativismo, que a redução dos estigmas deve ser um eixo central das políticas de prevenção. Porém, esses elementos persistem como barreiras e motivadores para a aceitabilidade e uso das tecnologias biomédicas entre as trabalhadoras sexuais cisgênero. Este artigo explora tal paradoxo ao problematizar a efetividade das profilaxias pré e pós-exposição em um contexto marcado por estigmas…
Para mim não há tempo
O presente trabalho investiga como conflitos temporais impactam o adoecimento psíquico vivido por mulheres no contexto de uma Clínica da Família na Zona Norte do Rio de Janeiro. Esta pesquisa foi realizada a partir de uma experiência de estágio em Psicologia no Núcleo Ampliado de Saúde da Família em uma unidade de saúde entre novembro de 2021 e 2022. Sobressai-se um movimento de chegada ao serviço quando tal sofrimento se instala de modo a parali…
Writing to Create, Mend, and Rebel
Autonomy and Care in Context
(Re)imagining research, activism, and rights at the intersections of sexuality, health, and social justice
The Covid-19 pandemic inaugurated a new global order of public life and health marked by death, despair and alienation. As a crisis of a global scale, it made the task of (re)imagination simultaneously necessary and extremely difficult. It is this double bind of the difficulty and imminence of imagination that motivates the curation of this special issue. In this introduction, we map the connections between the theme of this volume and the key id…
Missing the point’
Reproductive and sexual health policies have long mobilised religious and political forces. In this interview conducted in September of 2021, Brazilian feminist activist and researcher Sonia Corrêa guides us through a genealogy of anti-gender politics showing how they have been grounded in carefully crafted discourses about rights and gender that hinge on interpretations of the 'original' intent as ascribed in 'founding' documents such as the bib…
Igniting the Pleasures of Peer-Review and Revolution from Putaria
Brazilian sex workers are increasingly publishing about their lives and fights, raising central questions about the powers, “truths” and interests that crosscut knowledge production processes in contexts of prostitution. In this text, I discuss the manuscript, “Andando entre cabarés: conhecendo os saberes da putaria” (Clarindo; Zamboni; Martins. 2022), highlighting its valuable conceptual and theoretical contributions to this emerging field and r…
Acendendo os prazeres da revisão por pares e da revolução a partir da putaria
Há um crescente e importante número de trabalhadoras sexuais brasileiras publicando sobre suas vidas e lutas, levantando questões centrais sobre os poderes, 'verdades' e interesses que atravessem a produção de conhecimento sobre a prostituição. Neste texto, discuto o manuscrito, 'Andando entre cabarés: conhecendo os saberes da putaria' (Clarindo; Zamboni; Martins, 2022), destacando suas valiosas contribuições conceituais e teóricas para este camp…
A retreat from human rights? A reflection on sex work’s place in contemporary HIV prevention
In 2012, the World Health Organization guidelines for HIV prevention recommended the decriminalisation of sex work as their number one good practice. Although human rights language played a key role in the international scientific and activist endorsement of the WHO policies, since then there have been few initiatives in terms of advancing the kinds of structural and political changes endorsed. In this Commentary, we reflect on sex work's place i…
Gringo Love
Reviewed by: Gringo Love: Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil by Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan Laura Rebecca Murray Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan. Gringo Love: Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil. William Flynn, compiler. Débora Santos, illustrator. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 200 pp. What is sex tourism? Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan asks this question in one of the appendices to her graphic novel, noting that the answer is not a simple one and that …
The prostitute, the city, and the virus
The present article has two goals. First, it seeks to establish, for non-specialized readers, the history of what we label “hygenization” in Brazilian urban and health policies and their intersections with the sale of sex and the prevention of pandemic disease. Secondly, we aim to show how concepts in contemporary Covid-19 vocabulary such as “social distancing” and “quarantine” have historical roots in morally driven (anti)prostitution policies, …
Sex Work, Essential Work
Brazil has made international headlines for the government's inept and irresponsible response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, sex worker activists have once again taken on an essential role in responding to the pandemic amidst State absences and abuses. Drawing on the theoretical framework of necropolitics, we trace the gendered, sexualized, and racialized dimensions of how prostitution and work have been (un)governed in Brazil and how…
Optimising HIV programming for transgender women in Brazil
In Brazil, little data is available to inform HIV prevention programming for travestis and transgender ('trans') women, despite the existence of a social movement that has gained strength in recent years. We conducted formative research in Rio de Janeiro to gather trans women's perspectives on combination HIV prevention approaches. Framing the analysis within the model of gender affirmation, we found that several social and contextual factors inh…
Rites of Resistance
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted from 2011 to 2015 and the authors' long-term engagement in diverse aspects of HIV and human rights advocacy in Brazil, this paper explores key elements of the Brazilian sex workers' movement response to HIV and the broader political factors that profoundly influenced its trajectory. We argue that the movement has constantly challenged representations of prostitution by affirming sex workers' roles as pol…
Sex, love and money along the Namibian-Angolan border
In sub-Saharan Africa, young women engaged in relationships with multiple partners in order to gain material benefits play a key role in local HIV dynamics. This paper is based upon field observations and interviews with 38 young women who live along the Angolan-Namibian border. In the last 10 years, rapid urbanisation has attracted migrants in search of opportunities to do business in the region. Our findings show that sexual-affective economic …
Blood, sweat and semen
This article provides an ethnographic analysis of Afro-Brazilian religious responses to the HIV epidemic in Recife. Drawing on participant observation and in-depth interviews conducted with Afro-Brazilian religious leaders and public health officials, it highlights the importance of the axé--a mystical energy manipulated in religious rituals that is symbolically associated with blood, sweat and semen. In an analysis of the relationship formed bet…
Divine targets
This study explored the focus on youth in Catholic and Evangelical Pentecostal discussions about and responses to HIV and AIDS in Brazil. Key informant, oral history and in-depth interviews revealed a disconnect between young people's views of themselves as leaders in their religious institutions' responses to HIV and other social problems, and adult religious leaders' views of young people as vulnerable and in need of being 'saved'. Religious le…
The Catholic Church, moral doctrine, and HIV prevention in Recife, Brazil
Religious beliefs have had a key role in shaping local responses to HIV and AIDS. As the world's largest Catholic country, Brazil is no exception. Yet little research has been conducted to document how the religious doctrine is enacted in practice among its lay leaders and followers. In this article, we present ethnographic research from Recife, Brazil, conducted to understand the way in which religious doctrines are interpreted on a local level.…
Strange bedfellows
She's a professional like anyone else’
Community mobilisation among sex workers is recognised as an important HIV/STI prevention strategy. However, factors such as poverty and stigma often negatively influence participation in activities that attempt to mobilise around a common identity of 'sex workers'. A qualitative study was conducted to explore the relationship between social identity and participation among 24 sex workers enrolled in an HIV/STI prevention intervention research pr…
Sex Work, Essential Work
Brazil has made international headlines for the government's inept and irresponsible response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, sex worker activists have once again taken on an essential role in responding to the pandemic amidst State absences and abuses. Drawing on the theoretical framework of necropolitics, we trace the gendered, sexualized, and racialized dimensions of how prostitution and work have been (un)governed in Brazil and how…
Strange bedfellows
Writing to Create, Mend, and Rebel
The Catholic Church, moral doctrine, and HIV prevention in Recife, Brazil
Religious beliefs have had a key role in shaping local responses to HIV and AIDS. As the world's largest Catholic country, Brazil is no exception. Yet little research has been conducted to document how the religious doctrine is enacted in practice among its lay leaders and followers. In this article, we present ethnographic research from Recife, Brazil, conducted to understand the way in which religious doctrines are interpreted on a local level.…
She's a professional like anyone else’
Community mobilisation among sex workers is recognised as an important HIV/STI prevention strategy. However, factors such as poverty and stigma often negatively influence participation in activities that attempt to mobilise around a common identity of 'sex workers'. A qualitative study was conducted to explore the relationship between social identity and participation among 24 sex workers enrolled in an HIV/STI prevention intervention research pr…
Blood, sweat and semen
This article provides an ethnographic analysis of Afro-Brazilian religious responses to the HIV epidemic in Recife. Drawing on participant observation and in-depth interviews conducted with Afro-Brazilian religious leaders and public health officials, it highlights the importance of the axé--a mystical energy manipulated in religious rituals that is symbolically associated with blood, sweat and semen. In an analysis of the relationship formed bet…
Divine targets
This study explored the focus on youth in Catholic and Evangelical Pentecostal discussions about and responses to HIV and AIDS in Brazil. Key informant, oral history and in-depth interviews revealed a disconnect between young people's views of themselves as leaders in their religious institutions' responses to HIV and other social problems, and adult religious leaders' views of young people as vulnerable and in need of being 'saved'. Religious le…
The Catholic Church, moral doctrine, and HIV prevention in Recife, Brazil
Religious beliefs have had a key role in shaping local responses to HIV and AIDS. As the world's largest Catholic country, Brazil is no exception. Yet little research has been conducted to document how the religious doctrine is enacted in practice among its lay leaders and followers. In this article, we present ethnographic research from Recife, Brazil, conducted to understand the way in which religious doctrines are interpreted on a local level.…
Strange bedfellows
Sex, love and money along the Namibian-Angolan border
In sub-Saharan Africa, young women engaged in relationships with multiple partners in order to gain material benefits play a key role in local HIV dynamics. This paper is based upon field observations and interviews with 38 young women who live along the Angolan-Namibian border. In the last 10 years, rapid urbanisation has attracted migrants in search of opportunities to do business in the region. Our findings show that sexual-affective economic …
Rites of Resistance
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted from 2011 to 2015 and the authors' long-term engagement in diverse aspects of HIV and human rights advocacy in Brazil, this paper explores key elements of the Brazilian sex workers' movement response to HIV and the broader political factors that profoundly influenced its trajectory. We argue that the movement has constantly challenged representations of prostitution by affirming sex workers' roles as pol…
Optimising HIV programming for transgender women in Brazil
In Brazil, little data is available to inform HIV prevention programming for travestis and transgender ('trans') women, despite the existence of a social movement that has gained strength in recent years. We conducted formative research in Rio de Janeiro to gather trans women's perspectives on combination HIV prevention approaches. Framing the analysis within the model of gender affirmation, we found that several social and contextual factors inh…
The prostitute, the city, and the virus
The present article has two goals. First, it seeks to establish, for non-specialized readers, the history of what we label “hygenization” in Brazilian urban and health policies and their intersections with the sale of sex and the prevention of pandemic disease. Secondly, we aim to show how concepts in contemporary Covid-19 vocabulary such as “social distancing” and “quarantine” have historical roots in morally driven (anti)prostitution policies, …
Sex Work, Essential Work
Brazil has made international headlines for the government's inept and irresponsible response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, sex worker activists have once again taken on an essential role in responding to the pandemic amidst State absences and abuses. Drawing on the theoretical framework of necropolitics, we trace the gendered, sexualized, and racialized dimensions of how prostitution and work have been (un)governed in Brazil and how…
A retreat from human rights? A reflection on sex work’s place in contemporary HIV prevention
In 2012, the World Health Organization guidelines for HIV prevention recommended the decriminalisation of sex work as their number one good practice. Although human rights language played a key role in the international scientific and activist endorsement of the WHO policies, since then there have been few initiatives in terms of advancing the kinds of structural and political changes endorsed. In this Commentary, we reflect on sex work's place i…
Gringo Love
Reviewed by: Gringo Love: Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil by Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan Laura Rebecca Murray Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan. Gringo Love: Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil. William Flynn, compiler. Débora Santos, illustrator. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 200 pp. What is sex tourism? Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan asks this question in one of the appendices to her graphic novel, noting that the answer is not a simple one and that …
Autonomy and Care in Context
(Re)imagining research, activism, and rights at the intersections of sexuality, health, and social justice
The Covid-19 pandemic inaugurated a new global order of public life and health marked by death, despair and alienation. As a crisis of a global scale, it made the task of (re)imagination simultaneously necessary and extremely difficult. It is this double bind of the difficulty and imminence of imagination that motivates the curation of this special issue. In this introduction, we map the connections between the theme of this volume and the key id…
Missing the point’
Reproductive and sexual health policies have long mobilised religious and political forces. In this interview conducted in September of 2021, Brazilian feminist activist and researcher Sonia Corrêa guides us through a genealogy of anti-gender politics showing how they have been grounded in carefully crafted discourses about rights and gender that hinge on interpretations of the 'original' intent as ascribed in 'founding' documents such as the bib…
Igniting the Pleasures of Peer-Review and Revolution from Putaria
Brazilian sex workers are increasingly publishing about their lives and fights, raising central questions about the powers, “truths” and interests that crosscut knowledge production processes in contexts of prostitution. In this text, I discuss the manuscript, “Andando entre cabarés: conhecendo os saberes da putaria” (Clarindo; Zamboni; Martins. 2022), highlighting its valuable conceptual and theoretical contributions to this emerging field and r…
Acendendo os prazeres da revisão por pares e da revolução a partir da putaria
Há um crescente e importante número de trabalhadoras sexuais brasileiras publicando sobre suas vidas e lutas, levantando questões centrais sobre os poderes, 'verdades' e interesses que atravessem a produção de conhecimento sobre a prostituição. Neste texto, discuto o manuscrito, 'Andando entre cabarés: conhecendo os saberes da putaria' (Clarindo; Zamboni; Martins, 2022), destacando suas valiosas contribuições conceituais e teóricas para este camp…
Writing to Create, Mend, and Rebel
Evita, mas não elimina
Nas últimas quatro décadas, pesquisas têm comprovado, junto com o ativismo, que a redução dos estigmas deve ser um eixo central das políticas de prevenção. Porém, esses elementos persistem como barreiras e motivadores para a aceitabilidade e uso das tecnologias biomédicas entre as trabalhadoras sexuais cisgênero. Este artigo explora tal paradoxo ao problematizar a efetividade das profilaxias pré e pós-exposição em um contexto marcado por estigmas…
Para mim não há tempo
O presente trabalho investiga como conflitos temporais impactam o adoecimento psíquico vivido por mulheres no contexto de uma Clínica da Família na Zona Norte do Rio de Janeiro. Esta pesquisa foi realizada a partir de uma experiência de estágio em Psicologia no Núcleo Ampliado de Saúde da Família em uma unidade de saúde entre novembro de 2021 e 2022. Sobressai-se um movimento de chegada ao serviço quando tal sofrimento se instala de modo a parali…
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