Kamath, Anant and Neethi, P
(2021)
Body politics and the politics of technology: technological experiences among street-based sex workers in Bangalore.
Gender, Technology and Development, 25 (3).
pp. 294-310.
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This paper illustrates how body politics and the politics of technol-ogy compound one another for female street-based sex workers(FSSWs) in Bangalore city, India, in their experiences of three tech-nologies – mobile phones, CCTV surveillance, and television media.Mobile phones have emerged as an integral part of street-basedsex work in Bangalore as a result of FSSWs abstaining from publicspaces that have been overwhelmingly eroded due to urban transi-tion and gentrification over the last two decades in Bangalore, aswell as due to their inherent advantages. Simultaneously, intensi-fied CCTV surveillance of city spaces keeps watch on them, whilenative-language television media, a techno-cultural predator, rou-tinely conducts self-assigned gentrification operations covertly orovertly discovering and publicly disseminating information onimmorality and delinquency. All three technological experiencesunderstandably have had complicated fallouts for FSSWs, a resultof the politics of technology that are at the foundations of theseexperiences. |
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School of Social Sciences > Gender |
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Schools > Social Sciences |
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24 Feb 2026 09:05 |
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24 Feb 2026 09:05 |
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| DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.1080/09718524.2021.1933348 |
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http://eprints.nias.res.in/id/eprint/3200 |
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