Participatory Change in a Campaign Led by Sex Workers: Connecting Resistance to Action-Oriented Agency
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2008
Keywords
health, communication, culture, sex worker, campaign, resistance, agency
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732307309373
Abstract
Studies predict that the number of HIV infections among commercial sex workers (CSWers) in India may rise to 3.93 million. Efforts have been made to stem the tide. But most campaigns have been designed to ensure condom compliance among CSWers by spreading awareness and increasing availability. Absent from the discursive space of such campaigns are the agency of CSWers and their ability to resist dominant social structures. The authors respond to this lacuna in health communication by foregrounding voices of CSWers participating in two HIV/AIDS interventions in India. Based on the culture-centered approach to health communication and subaltern studies theory, it examines data from two sites to analyze how communicative narratives of agency and resistance are enacted in the marginalized lives of sex workers.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Qualitative Health Research, v. 18, issue 1, p. 106-119.
Scholar Commons Citation
Basu, Ambar and Dutta, Mohan J., "Participatory Change in a Campaign Led by Sex Workers: Connecting Resistance to Action-Oriented Agency" (2008). Communication Faculty Publications. 524.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/spe_facpub/524
