The Brothel Phone Number: Infrastructures of Transnational Pimping in Eastern Romania
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The Brothel Phone Number : Infrastructures of Transnational Pimping in Eastern Romania. / Korsby, Trine Mygind.
I: The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, Bind 35, Nr. 2, 2017, s. 111-124.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The Brothel Phone Number
T2 - Infrastructures of Transnational Pimping in Eastern Romania
AU - Korsby, Trine Mygind
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Taking a point of departure in negotiations for access to a phone number for a brothel abroad, the article demonstrates how a group of pimps in Eastern Romania attempt to extend their local business into the rest of the EU. The article shows how the phone number works as a micro-infrastructure in its own right, providing an entry point into the wider infrastructure of transnational pimping. The pimps’ embodied certainty of how to operate successfully in their neighbourhood in Romania is produced in resonance with the local, urban materiality. This interplay generates body techniques, which in turn cultivate and maximize uncertainty about themselves in others. When making the move to go abroad into unknown terrains, accessing the infrastructure generated by the phone number can provide certainty and consolidate one’s position within criminal networks abroad. However, at the same time, mishandling the phone number can be dangerous and in that sense produce new doubts and uncertainties.
AB - Taking a point of departure in negotiations for access to a phone number for a brothel abroad, the article demonstrates how a group of pimps in Eastern Romania attempt to extend their local business into the rest of the EU. The article shows how the phone number works as a micro-infrastructure in its own right, providing an entry point into the wider infrastructure of transnational pimping. The pimps’ embodied certainty of how to operate successfully in their neighbourhood in Romania is produced in resonance with the local, urban materiality. This interplay generates body techniques, which in turn cultivate and maximize uncertainty about themselves in others. When making the move to go abroad into unknown terrains, accessing the infrastructure generated by the phone number can provide certainty and consolidate one’s position within criminal networks abroad. However, at the same time, mishandling the phone number can be dangerous and in that sense produce new doubts and uncertainties.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - body
KW - criminal livelihoods
KW - infrastructure
KW - pimping
KW - Romania
KW - transnational crime
U2 - 10.3167/cja.2017.350209
DO - 10.3167/cja.2017.350209
M3 - Journal article
VL - 35
SP - 111
EP - 124
JO - The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
JF - The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
SN - 0305-7674
IS - 2
ER -
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