Learning from women who trade sex in Kenya about the antiblackness of Global Health

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4946509
AutoresBrianna Simmons (University of California, Riverside), Jennifer Syvertsen (0000-0002-2387-7273, The Ohio State University, autor correspondente), Jennifer L Syvertsen
Ano2022
Volume313
Páginas115246
Data de publicação2022-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Science & Medicine (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347
EditoraElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115246
PMID36215927
OpenAlexW4288969749
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas41

Sex work and violence have become co-constituted, routinized, and even sanitized in Global Health journals dispassionately advocating for intervention. This paper situates ethnographically shared experiences of Kenyan sex working women within the global condition of antiblackness. By grounding our conceptual analytic in Black Feminist scholarship, we illustrate how antiblackness subtends the conditions of possibility for women's entry into sex work, their subsequent experiences with interpersonal and institutional forms of predatory violence, and lack of recourse for their material needs and suffering. This analysis requires a meditation on the relationships between the types of violence conditioning Kenyan women's lives and the limitations of Global Health's conceptual logics and disciplinary practice. Our discussion reflects on the ways Global Health practice can neglect conceptual foundations in antiblackness, thus complicit in upholding violence against the very groups it purports to assist. In charging Global Health "as usual" as methodologically violent and sustaining global antiblackness, we call for disciplinary transformations beginning from a shared consciousness regarding the ways global antiblackness structures health inequities. Beyond critique, our meditation is an invitation for all committed to dignified Global Health to contribute creative, non-hierarchically collaborative work engaged with those in material, structural, and immaterial need

Discipline · Global health · Kenya · Political science · Public health · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Law · Medicine · Sex work and related issues