Prior, Jason, Crofts, Penny, Hubbard, Philip (2013) Planning, law, and sexuality: Hiding immorality in plain view. Geographical Research, 51 (4). pp. 354-363. ISSN 1745-5863. (doi:10.1111/1745-5871.12033) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:36879)
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12033 |
Abstract
Emerging research in sexuality and space outlines the diverse forms of spatial governmentality used to discipline non-normative sexual behaviours, exploring how exclusion, concealment, and repression combines to ensure that 'immoral' sexualities are out of the sight of the 'moral majority'. In this paper, we explore this contention in relation to planning for sex service premises (brothels) in New South Wales, Australia. Though such sex service premises are now legal, our analysis nonetheless considers the way that these premises have been subject to forms of planning constraint that reflect planners' assumptions about the appropriate manifestation of sex premises within the urban landscape. By exposing the assumptions written into planning law that sex premises are legal but potentially disorderly, we demonstrate the evidential power of planning to reinforce dominant moral geographies through instruments which, at first glance, appear to be focused on objective questions of amenity and the 'best use of land'. This paper hence explores the ways in which planners have translated assumptions of disorder into categories of visibility and distance, meaning that brothels have become hidden in plain view so as not to disturb the integrity of residential 'family' spaces. © 2013 Institute of Australian Geographers.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1111/1745-5871.12033 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Legal geographies, Moral geographies, Planning, Proximity, Sexuality and space, Visibility |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research |
Depositing User: | Mita Mondal |
Date Deposited: | 25 Nov 2013 09:41 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 10:13 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/36879 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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