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Can I read Livability: A politics for abnormative lives on EtoBox?
Livability: A politics for abnormative lives by Sara Kallock is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Livability: A politics for abnormative lives about?
This article introduces the concept of abnormativity as way of theorizing the realities of subjects who suffer from marginalization and/or erasure, specifically sex workers. It then develops livability as a playbook of political action which attends to the abnormative lives of sex workers by balancing resistance to institutionalized forms of marginalization with queer critical approaches to heteronormativity. It proposes this framework as suitable for frontline sex-worker support projects, outlining the limitations and benefits of three ethico-political models that aim to address the conditions of abnormativity: the politics of recognition, intersectional recognition, and critical intelligibility. It argues that each of these models is insufficient on its own, but that intersectional recognition and critical intelligibility can be mobilized productively together as the politics of livability.
Who reads Livability: A politics for abnormative lives?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Social Sciences.
- Author
- Sara Kallock
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences