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About us. Stay updated. Corporate Social Responsiblity. Investor Relations. Review a Brill Book. Rights and Permissions. Press and Reviews. In this study, I intend to scrutinize the concepts as they have evolved and been invoked historically, and through an exploration of how they have been brought up in debates and lived out on the ground in disparate time periods and urban settings around the world, I hope to problematize the notions and examine the inner contradictions they reproduce.
For me, the first question that comes to mind when thinking about these concepts is: How useful are they as a means of thinking about sex work? If all forms of sold sex represent acts of male violence, as some abolitionists argue via a singular model of coercion, are there no spaces at all for agency in the various ways that sex work suffuses the urban spaces of cities around the world? To begin an enquiry into these issues, I intend to examine how these concepts evolved and have been employed and discuss how they have impacted legislation and the people those laws target.
By taking a broad, global approach, I think it is important for us to ask: Is this model perhaps a western notion that still today propagates latent imperialist modes of thinking? Should we even try? The concept emerged along with the interrelated issues of entrenched modes of capitalist production and labour, pervasive processes of medicalization of society and urban spaces, shifts in conceptualizations of the relationship between the individual and society, and increasingly powerful feminist movements.
