Treading water: Street sex workers negotiating frantic presents and speculative futures in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Laínez, Nicolás

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“…That is, they focus on future opportunities and use this dimension as a coping strategy to deal with or mitigate the suffering derived from prostitution. In this sense, one can notice that the different dynamics and temporal regimes coexisting in capitalism compel subjects to act and think according to distinct temporal models at the same time (Lainez, 2019). I can tell that time is passing very quickly, I'm trying to get out of here and finish college, you know?…”

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“…Among these, about 75% are women aged between 13 and 25 years (Meihy, 2015). Despite the associated difficulties and stigmas, the degree of autonomy, the prospect of high income, the immediate payments, the free time, and the flexibility to merge this occupational activity with others are some of the factors that contribute to the abundant supply of sex workers in urban and rural environments around the globe (Lainez, 2019). Besides, such service can only exist because there is demand, mainly by men, who pay for sex for various and complex reasons (Durant & Couch, 2019).…”

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“…Other reflections address the importance of dealing with the intersectionality that prostitution can encompass, by including issues of gender, sexual orientation, race, or skin color (Sanders, 2018). Prostitution has also been approached as "dirty work," that is, as something that carries stigma (Blithe & Wolfe, 2017) and forces its practitioners to make decisions every day at a frantic pace (Lainez, 2019) and abnegate their personal life at present to save it for the future. This, in turn, implies harmful psychic dislocations for individuals (Blithe & Wolfe, 2017) and relates to the differences in temporal perception (Carvalho, 2018;Güell & Yopo, 2016), directly connecting the central themes of this study to a broader research agenda.…”

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Mulheres De Vida Fácil? Tempo, Prazer E Sofrimento No Trabalho De Prostitutas

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RESUMO Este estudo se propõe a analisar como percepções temporais influenciam vivências de prazer e sofrimento no trabalho de prostitutas, em Belo Horizonte (MG). Foi realizado um estudo de caso, de natureza qualitativa descritiva. A coleta de dados deu-se por meio de entrevistas com roteiro semiestruturado. Foram abordadas 15 profissionais dos chamados “hotéis de batalha”, e os dados coletados foram tratados por meio de análise de conteúdo. As prostitutas entrevistadas associam o tempo a um recurso, e isso se vincula a vivências de prazer e sofrimento, no sentido de que a administração adequada do tempo gera, para elas, o dinheiro, que é a principal fonte de prazer do seu trabalho. Contudo, esse tempo de trabalho é também fonte de vivências de sofrimento, uma vez que as prostitutas naturalizam ou aceitam incômodos em relação ao trabalho e às consequências que ele acarreta.

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Mulheres De Vida Fácil? Tempo, Prazer E Sofrimento No Trabalho De Prostitutas

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“…My argument is that this temporality of displacement is not confined to migrants. In fact, as recent work on precarity and austerity suggests, this temporality of uncertainty is far from exceptional (Bear, 2016; Knight and Stewart, 2016): it is, for many people across the globe, both migrants and non-migrants, the norm (Lainez, 2018; Millar, 2014; Tsing, 2015). The current effects of global capitalism, which are intricately interwoven with new situations of migration (Anderson, 2016, 2017; De Genova, 2016; Gardiner Barber and Lem, 2018; Glick Schiller, 2018), make precarity an increasingly dominant reality of life for people everywhere (Allison, 2016; Tsing, 2015).…”

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Time and the other in crisis: How anthropology makes its displaced object

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2019

Anthropological Theory

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Displacement is typically approached in anthropology as an exceptional experience that is associated with refugees and forced migration. Recent representations of a migration ‘crisis’ have reinforced the exceptionality attached to displacement. Drawing on research conducted with people in both refugee and non-refugee contexts, in this article I put forward a more expansive theorisation of displacement as a sense of temporal dispossession. Additionally, I describe how, by characterising refugees and other migrants as people who occupy a temporality that is distinguished by their migration status, anthropology denies coevalness with and between migrants and non-migrants and thereby reinforces the very logics of otherness that we might otherwise seek to critique. Recognising the shared temporal rhythms of displacement, and how these manifest broadly as the effects of global capitalism and neoliberal restructurings, is one way through which anthropologists can strengthen our analyses and critiques of bordering structures. We must firmly situate refugees and migrants within these shared rhythms of displacement, rather than exceptionalise them through the lens of ‘crisis’.

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“…In this selection of original research our authors unpack the everyday temporal relationships within the workplace. This is expressed in research that looks at, for example, a dramaturgical approach to the time of the workplace, inspired by Erving Goffman (Rosengren, 2019); the temporality of sex workers in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta (Lainez, 2019); and a very insightful and thought-stirring essay on a subject many readers who are academics, especially early career scholars, will be familiar with – the labour time devoted to formal, instrumental and bureaucratic tasks (Noonan, 2019).…”

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2019

Time & Society

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In Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, his character Estragon has a line that goes: 'Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.' On the surface of everyday life's consciousness, this is often how waiting seems, and frustration or boredom or foreboding may count as its principal states at this relatively unexamined and seemingly 'empty' level. However, since at least the time of Henri Bergson, studies in temporality have taken theoretical insights into the social practice of waiting to profound depths and to a profusion of human realms. As our journal's founder, Barbara Adam (1998) wrote in her theory of 'timescapes', time (and waiting as an element of the experience of time) is produced socially, and is produced and shared in common as temporal contexts. Waiting, traditionally, has been something that our societies have sought to quantify in terms of the clock or calendar. But the much more interesting question must be: what is it to experience waiting? This issue begins with a series of seven original essays that explore this very question from a range of perspectives that constitute a diversity of 'timescapes' in their distinctive subject-matter. Waiting, we read, can be painful and felt vicariously in the waiting of others; it can be experienced distinctively as gendered; waiting can be even experienced as enjoyable; and can be a particularly felt experience at a life stage; or be an inescapable element in organisations, and therefore a temporality to be understood from the perspective of employees (Bailey, 2019). Our issue then delves further into the time of organizations, with a second theme that once again shows the vibrancy and diversity in time studies across the world today. In this selection of original research our authors unpack the everyday temporal relationships within the workplace. This is expressed in research that looks at, for example, a dramaturgical approach to the time of the workplace, inspired by Erving Goffman (Rosengren, 2019); the temporality of sex workers in Vietnam's Mekong Delta (Lainez, 2019); and a very insightful and thought-stirring essay on a subject many readers who are academics, especially early career scholars, will be familiar with-the labour time devoted to formal, instrumental and bureaucratic tasks (Noonan, 2019).

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Treading water: Street sex workers negotiating frantic presents and speculative futures in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

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