Relational work and careers of intimacy
Rethinking the cultural interpretation of the sex trade in Vietnam
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 3950975 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Nicolas Lainez (0000-0001-6314-275X, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2020 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Fascículo | 6 |
| Páginas | 1307-1321 |
| Data de publicação | 2020-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Editora | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0038026120903949 |
| OpenAlex | W3005118631 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 5 |
| Referências citadas | 31 |
Cultural interpretations of the sex trade are pervasive in Southeast Asia, in particular, the argument that daughters enrol in sex work to repay a debt of life and support their parents. While useful to illuminate the role of culture in shaping economic action, this narrative carries the risk of viewing people as robots guided by stable and supra-individual forces. Drawing on ethnographic data collected in Southern Vietnam and Cambodia on precarious and indebted Vietnamese families that encourage their daughters to sell sex, this article disturbs deterministic cultural accounts of sex work by describing how families interpret, negotiate and (re)produce cultural scripts through relational work. More specifically, it shows how these families draw from familistic scripts about hierarchy, duty and sacrifice conveyed in popular culture to assemble relational packages. Deeply imbued in affective undercurrents and power asymmetry, these packages allow families to negotiate taboo trades like the repayment of debt through the sale of their daughter's virginity. Overall, a relational work framework provides a better understanding of female participation in the sex trade in Vietnam than explanations based on normative accounts of culture or problematic trafficking binaries
Argument (complex analysis) · Complicity · Political science · Power (physics) · Sex work · Sociology · Vietnamese · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Law · Sex work and related issues · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
The Vietnamese Health Care System in Change
Thai women in the global labor force
The New Sociology of Economic Behaviour
Careers, identities, and institutions
Khmer Women on the Move
Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia
Modern Slavery
Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam
Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945
Economic Action and Social Structure
Commodified Sexuality and Mother-Daughter Power Dynamics in the Mekong Delta
To Be a Shoeshine Boy in Hanoi
Child domestic servants in Hanoi. Who are they and how do they fare
Migration and Sexual Exploitation in Vietnam
Modern Babylon
Rice Is Essential but Tiresome; You Should Get Some Noodles”
Mother sold food, daughter sells her body
Working for Free in the VIP
Young Sex-Workers in Ho Chi Minh City Telling Their Life Stories
Obfuscatory Relational Work and Disreputable Exchange
One Woman Helping Another
How I Became a Relational Economic Sociologist and What Does That Mean
The Contested Legacies of Indigenous Debt Bondage in Southeast Asia
Everyday Sacrifice and Language Socialization in Vietnam
Sex Work/Sex Act
Dangerous Trade-offs
| Obras citantes distintas | 5 |
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| Citações por ano | 1,25 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 5 |