MODIFIED TERRITORIALITIES: THE DETERRITORIALIZATION AND RETERRITORIALIZATION OF PROSTITUTION MOVEMENTS WITH COVID-19

Abstract

The link between inhabited spaces and human groups formed by sex workers and clients builds experiences qualified by their own territorial codes and arranged in territorialities; which, by social classifications, occupy from specific zones to segregated areas taken to prostitutional use. However, always subject to transformations by the social contexts experienced; for example, the recommendations of social distancing and isolation and preventive tactics to combat the spread of Covid-19. Measures that regulated and modified urban and collective relations as a whole, including those of prostitution. These new experiences of contact with cities were able to transfigure the social relations of prostitution to its new organizational formats, deterritorializing their existing territorialities and reterritorializing them according to the characteristics of their nature. In this transitional process, this paper investigated the representative possibilities in which the territoriality of prostitution was established during the Covid-19 pandemic period in their territories.