Strategic Stories and Reflexive Interruptions
Narratives of a “Safe Home” Amidst Cross-Border Sex Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2385159 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pamela J Downe (University of Saskatchewan), Pamela Downe (0000-0002-5557-6758, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 554-572 |
| Publication date | 2007-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1077800407300766 |
| OpenAlex | W1976205755 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 15 |
This article presents a narrative that emerged during research with 12 young women involved in cross-border sex work in the eastern Caribbean. This narrative draws on a locally specific historical reference and allows the young women to construct a notion of a "healthy home" amidst the uprootedness, frequent travel, and violence and risk that they face in their work. Drawing on Bruno Latour's constructivist notion of reflexivity, the framing of this narrative is examined for what it reveals about the personal reaction of the researcher as well as the dominant discourse of sex trafficking. By offering reflexive interruptions that make the attention and gaze of the researcher explicit and by explaining how the master narrative of sex trafficking must be drawn on with critical interrogation, the dialectic properties and contingent nature of the women's narrative are explored
Aesthetics · Art · Construct (python library · Dialectic · Epistemology · Framing (construction · Interrogation · Literature · Narrative · Narrative inquiry · Personal narrative · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |