Ecologies of security: On the everyday security tactics of female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya
| Autor: | Claudyne Chevrier, Joshua Kimani, Parinita Bhattacharjee, Helgar Musyoki, Robert Lorway, Shajy Isac, Gloria Gaaki, Shamshad Khan, Lisa Lazarus, Stephen Moses, Pascal Macharia, James F. Blanchard, Marissa Becker, John Mathenge, Peninah Mwangi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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media_common.quotation_subject Psychological intervention HIV Infections Violence Interviews as Topic 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Order (exchange) Agency (sociology) Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Sociology Set (psychology) Qualitative Research media_common 030505 public health Sex Workers Social network Constitution business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Social environment Public relations Kenya Harassment Female Safety 0305 other medical science business Risk Reduction Behavior |
| Zdroj: | Global public health. 13(12) |
| ISSN: | 1744-1706 |
| Popis: | This paper highlights important environmental dimensions of HIV vulnerability by describing how the sex trade operates in Nairobi, Kenya. Although sex workers there encounter various forms of violence and harassment, as do sex workers globally, we highlight how they do not merely fall victim to a set of environmental risks but also act upon their social environment, thereby remaking it, as they strive to protect their health and financial interests. In so doing, we illustrate the mutual constitution of 'agency' and 'structure' in social network formations that take shape in everyday lived spaces. Our findings point to the need to expand the focus of interventions to consider local ecologies of security in order to place the local knowledges, tactics, and capacities that communities might already possess on centre stage in interventions. Planning, implementing, and monitoring interventions with a consideration of these ecologies would tie interventions not only to the risk reduction goals of global public health policy, but also to the very real and grounded financial priorities of what it means to try to safely earn a living through sex work. |
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