The Brothel Phone Number
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4380134 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Trine Mygind Korsby (0000-0002-1904-9352, Department of Social Sciences, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7674 • E-ISSN: 2047-7716 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/cja.2017.350209 |
| OpenAlex | W2767642150 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 21 |
Taking a point of departure in negotiations for access to a phone number for a brothel abroad, the article demonstrates how a group of pimps in Eastern Romania attempt to extend their local business into the rest of the EU. The article shows how the phone number works as a micro-infrastructure in its own right, providing an entry point into the wider infrastructure of transnational pimping. The pimps’ embodied certainty of how to operate successfully in their neighbourhood in Romania is produced in resonance with the local, urban materiality. This interplay generates body techniques, which in turn cultivate and maximize uncertainty about themselves in others. When making the move to go abroad into unknown terrains, accessing the infrastructure generated by the phone number can provide certainty and consolidate one’s position within criminal networks abroad. However, at the same time, mishandling the phone number can be dangerous and in that sense produce new doubts and uncertainties
Aesthetics · Business · Certainty · Computer security · Internet privacy · Negotiation · Phone · Political science · Telecommunications · Computer Science · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law · Sex work and related issues
“Honest Bandits” and “Warped People”
Migration, Agency and Citizenship in Sex Trafficking
Getting By in Postsocialist Romania
Illicit Flows and Criminal Things
Global Sex Workers
A Day in the Cadillac
Law and disorder in the postcolony
What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next
Trafficking Women after Socialism
The Romanian economy in the twentieth century
The Ethnography of Infrastructure
Introduction
The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
Ideology in Infrastructure
Techniques of the body∗
Technologies of the Imagination
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |