“Carefully Curated/For Heart and Soul”: Sensing Place Identity in Sex Workplaces
In the face of ongoing interpersonal and structural violence towards sex workers in Canada, this research inquiry explores nine women and gender-diverse sex workers’ experiences of place identity within their workplaces. Employing multisensory and arts-based ethnographic fieldwork, the co-researcher...
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| description | In the face of ongoing interpersonal and structural violence towards sex workers in Canada, this research inquiry explores nine women and gender-diverse sex workers’ experiences of place identity within their workplaces. Employing multisensory and arts-based ethnographic fieldwork, the co-researchers storied their embodied place-based experiences of identity. The research findings illuminate place-identity processes within sex workplaces, suggesting that the context, materiality, and multisensory atmospheres of the co-researchers’ work environments were entwined with internal and external self-concepts. The co-researchers created personalized multisensory atmospheres in their workplaces through the use of colour, visual art, and music. Having workplaces that positively supported place identity fostered workplace comfort, control, and empowerment. Ultimately, this research suggests that place-identity processes in sex workplaces have the possibility to resist and shift sex work stigma. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c7c64630ea514d2f9c724f8a9445000b2023-12-22T14:42:14ZengMDPI AGSexes2411-51182023-09-014447349210.3390/sexes4040031“Carefully Curated/For Heart and Soul”: Sensing Place Identity in Sex WorkplacesAlison L. Grittner0Department of Social Work, Cape Breton University, Sydney, NS B1M 1A2, CanadaIn the face of ongoing interpersonal and structural violence towards sex workers in Canada, this research inquiry explores nine women and gender-diverse sex workers’ experiences of place identity within their workplaces. Employing multisensory and arts-based ethnographic fieldwork, the co-researchers storied their embodied place-based experiences of identity. The research findings illuminate place-identity processes within sex workplaces, suggesting that the context, materiality, and multisensory atmospheres of the co-researchers’ work environments were entwined with internal and external self-concepts. The co-researchers created personalized multisensory atmospheres in their workplaces through the use of colour, visual art, and music. Having workplaces that positively supported place identity fostered workplace comfort, control, and empowerment. Ultimately, this research suggests that place-identity processes in sex workplaces have the possibility to resist and shift sex work stigma.https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5118/4/4/31sex workplace identitymultisensory studiesidentityethnography |
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| title | “Carefully Curated/For Heart and Soul”: Sensing Place Identity in Sex Workplaces |
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