Abstract

This paper illustrates how body politics and the politics of technology compound one another for female street-based sex workers (FSSWs) in Bangalore city, India, in their experiences of three technologies – mobile phones, CCTV surveillance, and television media. Mobile phones have emerged as an integral part of street-based sex work in Bangalore as a result of FSSWs abstaining from public spaces that have been overwhelmingly eroded due to urban transition and gentrification over the last two decades in Bangalore, as well as due to their inherent advantages. Simultaneously, intensified CCTV surveillance of city spaces keeps watch on them, while native-language television media, a techno-cultural predator, routinely conducts self-assigned gentrification operations covertly or overtly discovering and publicly disseminating information on immorality and delinquency. All three technological experiences understandably have had complicated fallouts for FSSWs, a result of the politics of technology that are at the foundations of these experiences.

摘要

本文阐述了印度班加罗尔市街头女性性工作者 (FSSW) 对手机、闭路电视监控和电视媒体这三种技术的体验，身体政治和技术政治如何相互结合。移动电话已成为班加罗尔街头性工作的一个组成部分，这是由于过去二十年班加罗尔的城市转型和中产阶级化，以及由于他们的固有优势。与此同时，加强对城市空间的闭路电视监控不断监视着它们，而作为技术文化掠夺者的母语电视媒体，经常秘密或公开地进行自我指定的绅士化行动，发现和公开传播关于不道德和犯罪的信息。可以理解，所有三种技术体验都对 FSSW 产生了复杂的影响，这是这些体验基础的技术政治的结果。