Shame buffers and spatial risk-mitigation: Exploring the effects of social stigma on the locational strategies of illicit massage businesses and their customers

IF 4 2区 地球科学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY
Sean M. Crotty, Xiaolu Zhou
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Abstract

Traditional locational analysis in urban retail/business geography begins with the assumption that customers will visit retail locations that are most convenient, and that businesses that locate close to their customers’ residences or workplaces would be preferred to locations farther from those places. This assumption is problematic when applied to economic activities for which social stigma exists. In this article, we examine the influence of social stigma on the locational choices made by customers of illicit massage businesses in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas metropolitan area. We introduce the concept of shame buffers – zones around the places to which each customer is most deeply socially embedded, their home, workplace, and other community spaces, where the customer would not engage in stigmatized behaviors for fear of being observed and facing social shaming. We then examine the validity of the shame-buffer concept by analyzing customers' mobility patterns for both legal and illicit massage businesses in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area (DFW metro).

耻辱缓冲和空间风险缓解:探索社会耻辱感对非法按摩企业及其顾客选址策略的影响
城市零售/商业地理学中传统的区位分析始于这样一个假设,即顾客会光顾最方便的零售地点,而靠近顾客住所或工作场所的企业会比远离这些地点的企业更受欢迎。当这一假设应用于存在社会污名的经济活动时,就会出现问题。在本文中,我们研究了社会耻辱感对得克萨斯州达拉斯-沃斯堡大都会地区非法按摩业顾客的地点选择的影响。我们引入了 "耻辱缓冲区"(shame buffers)的概念--在每个顾客最深的社会烙印周围的区域,如他们的家、工作场所和其他社区空间,顾客因害怕被观察和面临社会耻辱而不会在这些地方从事被耻辱化的行为。然后,我们通过分析达拉斯-沃斯堡大都会区(DFW Metropolitan Area)合法和非法按摩行业顾客的流动模式,来检验羞耻缓冲区概念的有效性。
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Applied Geography
Applied Geography GEOGRAPHY-
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期刊介绍: Applied Geography is a journal devoted to the publication of research which utilizes geographic approaches (human, physical, nature-society and GIScience) to resolve human problems that have a spatial dimension. These problems may be related to the assessment, management and allocation of the world physical and/or human resources. The underlying rationale of the journal is that only through a clear understanding of the relevant societal, physical, and coupled natural-humans systems can we resolve such problems. Papers are invited on any theme involving the application of geographical theory and methodology in the resolution of human problems.
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