PROSTITUTION BEYOND TROTTOIR IN THE LOCALITY CALLED ZERO KM IN VÁRZEA GRANDE-MT
This article presents results of a research developed as a master’s dissertation in the city of Várzea Grande/MT, in a locality called Zero Km, known as a permanent prostitution area, where activities are performed 24 hours a day. We analyze how prostitution unfolds beyond the effective practice of...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Geografar |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/68409 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ufpr.br/geografar/article/view/68409 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Prostituição Território Territorialidade Empoderamento. |
| Sumario: | This article presents results of a research developed as a master’s dissertation in the city of Várzea Grande/MT, in a locality called Zero Km, known as a permanent prostitution area, where activities are performed 24 hours a day. We analyze how prostitution unfolds beyond the effective practice of the researched agent trottoir, reflecting on issues such as the Sexual Revolution social phenomenon, occurred in the twentieth century and its reverberations for women, particularly the researched agents. Another important issue discussed in this article concerns the interviewees’ understanding of prostitution in their lives, reflecting on the relevant roles of self-affirmation and self-reflection. Throughout the text we highlight the importance of power to the present discussion. We approach it in relation to the prostitutes’ territorialities in their daily work and development of the Zero territory. In addition, we discuss empowerment, understood as a capacity to perceive prostitution beyond its moral stigma and as a useful tool for economic/social ascent. The territorialities which develop in the Zero are intrinsic to spatialities of their daily lives. The complementarity of their territorialities and spatialities occurs through the inter-relationship between the global and local geographic scales, a phenomenon which sometimes is realized explicitly and sometimes implicitly in the spatial practices that they perform. Beyond the trottoir in the Zero, there are women with their own identity, with distinct trajectories, different uses and considerations about prostitution. To conduct the research, we used the results obtained from some specific questions of the interview script, as well as bibliographic review. |
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