'Maybe I'm a quiet activist': Sex work scholars and negotiations of 'minor' academic-activism

被引：3

作者：

Laing, Mary ^{[1
]}

Cook, Ian R. ^{[1
]}

Baker, Tom ^{[2
]}

Calder-Dawe, Octavia ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Northumbria Univ, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, England

[2] Univ Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

[3] Victoria Univ Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

来源：

SEXUALITIES | 2024年 / 27卷 / 1-2期

关键词：

sex work scholars; activism; minor theory; impact agenda; identity; BOUNDARIES; RESISTANCE; IMPACT;

D O I：

10.1177/13634607211068690

中图分类号：

C91 [社会学];

学科分类号：

030301 ; 1204 ;

摘要：

With the intensification of calls for social 'impact' from research, there is renewed emphasis on academic-activism as a means to realize social change. But what 'counts' as activism in these visions of academic-activist impact? Drawing on interviews with sex work scholars in the United Kingdom and Aotearoa New Zealand, we examine the borders - and the disruption of borders - between 'traditional' forms of activism and a wider array of more 'minor' practices frequently perceived as too 'ordinary' to claim that label. In doing this, we explore quiet, implicit and everyday forms of activism, arguing that activism is embodied, frequently undertaken by those who do not self-identify as activists, and sits ambivalently within broader institutional drives for research-based 'impact'.

引用

页码：188 / 205

页数：18