Nothing about Us without Us
Sex Workers' Informal Political Practices in Ukraine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3646159 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dafna Rachok (0000-0002-4162-2194, Indiana University Bloomington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 261-269 |
| Publication date | 1969-12-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropologica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0254-9212 • E-ISSN: 2224-6428 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.3138/anth.2018-0055.r2 |
| OpenAlex | W3002524640 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 18 |
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 resistance politics, I enquire about formal and informal political strategies that sex workers resort to, how these strategies are used, and whether informal political practices can lead to the community's empowerment. With a focus primarily on street sex workers who are engaged in community organisation, I show how a controversial topic such as sex can be utilised by sex workers to attract attention to their marginalised situation and politicise their activism. Complicating the discussion of politics and political participation by viewing it through the lens of feminist anthropology, this paper attempts to contribute to the discussion about women's empowerment and to expand the category of "political practice" and "political activism." This paper concludes that Kropyvnyts'kyi sex workers often resort to small-scale political tactics in order to probe the limits of political possibility
Economic growth · Economics · Empowerment · Ethnography · Nothing · Political science · Politics · Sex work · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Sex work and related issues
Mapping Difference
The Unmaking of Soviet Life
Feminist Standpoint Epistemology
Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?
Party/Politics
Prostitution
Sex at the Margins
We’re Not Just Sandwiches”
The African-Centred Worldview
Social Work and the 'Missionary Zeal to Whip the Heathen Along the Path of Righteousness
Participation Despite the Odds
Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture
The Use and Abuse of Anthropology
The Women's Squad in Ukraine's protests
Informal Payments in Ukrainian Hospitals
Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |