Informal governance and the spatial management of street-based sex work in Aotearoa New Zealand

摘要: Abstract While informality has long been studied as a feature of governance in the global South, growing range accounts examine informal governing arrangements endemic to cities and nations North. This paper contributes such scholarship by drawing attention practices mechanisms involved spatial management sex work Existing literature on emphasised how shapes local mediates formal state-based regulation. We synthesise these studies suggest three modes governance: component, catalyst alternative Through case study street-based Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand, we discuss emerged de facto component regulation at national scale an scale. Specifically, detail ambiguous regulatory environment, combined with highly localised understandings appropriateness, led influenced through community-level partnership between authorities, residents worker advocates. In doing so, advocates for more multi-modal multi-scalar aspects governance.