Sex Workers and Cultural Policy: Mapping the Issues and Actors in Thailand.
This article deals with the deeply controversial side of cultural tourism in mapping the position of the sex industry. In doing so, it places sex tourism in two eptstemic contexts: one context expands the notion of cultural policies, the other notes the implicit and explicit origins and effects of c...
| Publicado en: | Review of Policy Research Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 155 - 174 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
March 2007
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