Anne Gray Fischer, <i>The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification</i>

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“…44-45). Following the argument of Sarah Schulman, author and longtime AIDS activist, that "gay life was expected to take place in private," Gira Grant notes how law enforcement and zoning laws were used to both produce and justify "street sweeps" during the process of gentrifying American cities -"sexually oriented businesses have been isolated from 'legitimate' businesses" (Gira Grant, 2014). Such tendencies are reflected in the concept of unwanted land uses, to which I now turn.…”

Section: Regulationism and The Brothel As A Heterotopiamentioning

confidence: 96%

“…According to the “broken windows” theory, visible signs of misdemeanors, anti-social behavior and civil disorder create an urban environment that encourages contumacy and leads to more serious crimes; hence, policing methods should target minor crimes such as vandalism, loitering, public drinking, jaywalking and fare evasion to create an atmosphere of order and lawfulness (Wilson and Kelling, 1982). As Anne Gray Fisher points out, “broken windows policing is a program that crowns officers as the arbiters and defenders of urban safety and order, as the ultimate solution to ‘problem bodies’” (Gray Fisher, 2022, p. 281), providing a “template for urban authorities to target a longer list of vulnerable city residents” (Gray Fisher, 2022). The presumed association between sex work, the drug trade and violent crime is frequently used to justify sweeps of areas where prostitution is believed to take place (Ritchie, 2017, p. 134).…”

Section: “Broken Windows” and Contagious Subjectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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From the margins of law to the margins of the city; a legal-geographical analysis of sex work regulationism in Greece

Michalakea

2023

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Purpose This paper aims to shed light on the spatial constraints of sex work in Greece. The objective is twofold: to illustrate the intertemporal stance of the Greek state to push sex work at the edge of both the city and the law produces sex workers as always already marginal subjects and to identify how a spatial-based understanding of sex work could help in acknowledging sex workers’ full community citizenship. Design/methodology/approach This article examines the legal geographies of sex work in modern and contemporary Greece. The author is a doctoral student in critical jurisprudence with a professional background in urban planning law, who also works voluntarily with Athens-based sex worker’s organizations. Law’s materialization within space (Bennet and Layard, 2015, p. 406), namely, the implication of law in the discursive and material production of place, is examined through archival research with primary and secondary sources, including legislations and LGBT publications such as Amfi and Kráximo from the 1980s and 1990s found in the Archives of Contemporary Social History (ASKI) in Athens. Additionally, as the author is currently conducting fieldwork with people who are working or have worked in the past in sex in Greece as a part of her PhD dissertation, the paper contains data provided by ten interlocutors to highlight their own personal experience. The researcher has used the critical oral history method, as it is committed to recording first-hand knowledge of experiences of marginalized community members who are often unheard or untold, with the additional goals of contextualizing these stories to reveal power differences and inequities (Lemley, 2017, Rickard, 2003). Findings The paper provides insight into how regulationism establishes the brothel – a metonymy of prostitution – as a heterotopia within the urban space. Contemporary approaches, such as LULUs and broken window policies, are used to indicate the historically marginal placement of sex work. Research limitations/implications The interviews presented here were conducted in the summer of 2022, in the context of the author’s PhD research. Despite her six years of activist-level involvement with sex workers’ rights organizations, due to ethical constraints, only the findings of interviews conducted up to the writing of this paper are presented here, while details of private discussions with members of these organizations are omitted. Originality/value The paper examines a significant and timely matter of place making and spatial justice. Unlike earlier research on prostitution in Greece that focused on the brothel either as a heterotopia or as an undesirable land use, the novelty of this paper is that it highlights the intersections between policing, planning, public hygiene, anti-immigration policies around the regulation of the sex market. By critically discussing the implications of the de facto illegality of sex work in Greece, the study highlights the importance of including the voices of sex workers in decision-making and contributes to the debate around the decriminalization of sex work in Greece.

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Section: Regulationism and The Brothel As A Heterotopiamentioning

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Section: “Broken Windows” and Contagious Subjectsmentioning

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From the margins of law to the margins of the city; a legal-geographical analysis of sex work regulationism in Greece

Michalakea

2023

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“…78 A mediados del siglo XX, la regulación del sexo permitió la gentrificación urbana cuando los gobiernos municipales limpiaron las "zonas rojas" para atraer turistas y consumidores suburbanos, limitando los entretenimientos sexuales a ciertas calles. 79 Internet abrió grandes espacios para el consumo de pornografía y el turismo sexual sigue siendo una industria próspera. 80 El sexo y su restricción pueden convertirse en un buen negocio.…”

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La importancia de la unidad doméstica: Hacia una historia social del capitalismo con perspectiva de género

Boris,

Swinth

2024

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Este ensayo se enfoca en la unidad doméstica para abordar un análisis del capitalismo con perspectiva de género. Repone un análisis generizado en las historias recientes del capitalismo, los análisis feministas de la reproducción social, las historias de la familia y el industrialismo, las historias de la sexualidad y las historias del trabajo de las mujeres. Plantea que analizar el capitalismo con una perspectiva centrada en la unidad doméstica echa luz sobre tres elementos centrales de la economía política capitalista. Primero, el capitalismo ha dependido del trabajo reproductivo y productivo que se realiza dentro del hogar, desde la industrialización temprana hasta la actualidad. Segundo, el trabajo reproductivo, históricamente anclado en la unidad doméstica, ha jugado un rol clave en el desarrollo de las relaciones laborales capitalistas. En tercer lugar, la mercantilización intensificada del trabajo reproductivo ha impulsado la acumulación capitalista, así como las relaciones sociales capitalistas, ya sea que ese trabajo se produzca dentro o fuera de la unidad doméstica.

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Anne Gray Fischer, The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification

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From the margins of law to the margins of the city; a legal-geographical analysis of sex work regulationism in Greece

From the margins of law to the margins of the city; a legal-geographical analysis of sex work regulationism in Greece

La importancia de la unidad doméstica: Hacia una historia social del capitalismo con perspectiva de género

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