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Kim M. Blankenship - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Can Sex Workers Regulate Police? Learning from an HIV Prevention Project for Sex Workers in Southern India
    Social science & medicine (1982), 2009
    Co-Authors: Monica Biradavolu, Scott Burris, Annie George, Asima Jena, Kim M. Blankenship
    Abstract:

    There is an argument that policing practices exacerbate HIV risk, particularly for female sex workers. Interventions that mobilize sex workers to seek changes in laws and law enforcement practices have been prominent in India and have received considerable scholarly attention. Yet, there are few studies on the strategies sex worker advocates use to modify police behavior or the struggles they face in challenging state institutions. This paper draws upon contemporary theories of governance and non-state regulation to analyze the evolving strategies of an HIV prevention Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) and female sex worker community-based Organizations (CBOs) to reform police practices in southern India. Using detailed ethnographic observations of NGO and CBO activities over a two year period, and key informant interviews with various actors in the sex trade, this paper shows how a powerless group of marginalized and stigmatized women were able to leverage the combined forces of community empowerment, collective action and network-based governance to regulate a powerful state actor, and considers the impact of the advocacy strategies on sex worker well-being.

Monica Biradavolu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Can Sex Workers Regulate Police? Learning from an HIV Prevention Project for Sex Workers in Southern India
    Social science & medicine (1982), 2009
    Co-Authors: Monica Biradavolu, Scott Burris, Annie George, Asima Jena, Kim M. Blankenship
    Abstract:

    There is an argument that policing practices exacerbate HIV risk, particularly for female sex workers. Interventions that mobilize sex workers to seek changes in laws and law enforcement practices have been prominent in India and have received considerable scholarly attention. Yet, there are few studies on the strategies sex worker advocates use to modify police behavior or the struggles they face in challenging state institutions. This paper draws upon contemporary theories of governance and non-state regulation to analyze the evolving strategies of an HIV prevention Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) and female sex worker community-based Organizations (CBOs) to reform police practices in southern India. Using detailed ethnographic observations of NGO and CBO activities over a two year period, and key informant interviews with various actors in the sex trade, this paper shows how a powerless group of marginalized and stigmatized women were able to leverage the combined forces of community empowerment, collective action and network-based governance to regulate a powerful state actor, and considers the impact of the advocacy strategies on sex worker well-being.

Leta Dromantienė - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The role of Non-Governmental Organizations in social cohesion
    Social Work, 2003
    Co-Authors: Leta Dromantienė
    Abstract:

    The role of Non-Governmental Organizations in the modern society is discussed in the article. The problems of reglamentation of Non-Governmental Organizations, the concept of social services, the cooperation of Non-Governmental Organization and governmental structures and other institutions while suplying the inhabitants with social services are analyzed in the article too. Delivery of social aid responding the needs of specific social groups increasingly offering social services forms the primary weight of NGO activity. Evidently NGO have shifted their operation towards redusing the structural or root causes of poverty and insecurity. NGO as voluntary associations bring together people whose particular interests are not shared by the whole society. Thus NGO’s are often testing grounds for social programs that are still too controversial to be handled by institutional Organizations. They also provide a chanel through which the private citizen can share in the decision – making process of society. The article focuses on social changes and reform of social policy and social security system in Lithuania after restoration of independency.

Annie George - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Can Sex Workers Regulate Police? Learning from an HIV Prevention Project for Sex Workers in Southern India
    Social science & medicine (1982), 2009
    Co-Authors: Monica Biradavolu, Scott Burris, Annie George, Asima Jena, Kim M. Blankenship
    Abstract:

    There is an argument that policing practices exacerbate HIV risk, particularly for female sex workers. Interventions that mobilize sex workers to seek changes in laws and law enforcement practices have been prominent in India and have received considerable scholarly attention. Yet, there are few studies on the strategies sex worker advocates use to modify police behavior or the struggles they face in challenging state institutions. This paper draws upon contemporary theories of governance and non-state regulation to analyze the evolving strategies of an HIV prevention Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) and female sex worker community-based Organizations (CBOs) to reform police practices in southern India. Using detailed ethnographic observations of NGO and CBO activities over a two year period, and key informant interviews with various actors in the sex trade, this paper shows how a powerless group of marginalized and stigmatized women were able to leverage the combined forces of community empowerment, collective action and network-based governance to regulate a powerful state actor, and considers the impact of the advocacy strategies on sex worker well-being.

Scott Burris - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Can Sex Workers Regulate Police? Learning from an HIV Prevention Project for Sex Workers in Southern India
    Social science & medicine (1982), 2009
    Co-Authors: Monica Biradavolu, Scott Burris, Annie George, Asima Jena, Kim M. Blankenship
    Abstract:

    There is an argument that policing practices exacerbate HIV risk, particularly for female sex workers. Interventions that mobilize sex workers to seek changes in laws and law enforcement practices have been prominent in India and have received considerable scholarly attention. Yet, there are few studies on the strategies sex worker advocates use to modify police behavior or the struggles they face in challenging state institutions. This paper draws upon contemporary theories of governance and non-state regulation to analyze the evolving strategies of an HIV prevention Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) and female sex worker community-based Organizations (CBOs) to reform police practices in southern India. Using detailed ethnographic observations of NGO and CBO activities over a two year period, and key informant interviews with various actors in the sex trade, this paper shows how a powerless group of marginalized and stigmatized women were able to leverage the combined forces of community empowerment, collective action and network-based governance to regulate a powerful state actor, and considers the impact of the advocacy strategies on sex worker well-being.