搜捕与返回:性工作运动，警察压迫，以及印度索纳加奇的普通政治

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2019-04-29 DOI:10.14197/ATR.201219128

Simanti Dasgupta

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本文借鉴了印度加尔各答标志性红灯区索纳加奇的基层性工作者组织Durbar Mahila Samawaya委员会（DMSC）的民族志工作，探讨了作为国家暴力形式的突袭所产生的碎屑的政治。虽然目前的文献主要关注其制度影响，但本文探讨了突袭的意义，以及它与妓院作为一个家和集体化争取劳工权利的空间的直接关系。根据性工作者用来描述突袭暴力的孟加拉语单词atyachar（压迫），我认为他们经历突袭不是一种奇观，而是一种普通的暴力形式，与他们返回重建生活的非凡经历形成鲜明对比。回归既是对碎石的开垦，也是对国家破坏DMSC劳工运动企图的颠覆。

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Of Raids and Returns: Sex work movement, police oppression, and the politics of the ordinary in Sonagachi, India

Drawing on ethnographic work with Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC), a grassroots sex worker organisation in Sonagachi, the iconic red-light district in Kolkata, India, this paper explores the politics of the detritus generated by raids as a form of state violence. While the current literature mainly focuses on its institutional ramifications, this article explores the significance of the raid in its immediate relation to the brothel as a home and a space to collectivise for labour rights. Drawing on atyachar (oppression), the Bengali word sex workers use to depict the violence of raids, I argue that they experience the raid not as a spectacle, but as an ordinary form of violence in contrast to their extraordinary experience of return to rebuild their lives. Return signals both a reclamation of the detritus as well as subversion of the state’s attempt to undermine DMSC’s labour movement.

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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