Queer in Translation
Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam
Seiten
2021
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1136-1 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1136-1 (ISBN)
Drawing from ethnographic work with queer activist groups in contemporary Turkey, Evren Savcı explores how Western LGBT politics are translated and reworked there in ways that generate new spaces for resistance and solidarity.
In Queer in Translation, Evren Savcı analyzes the travel and translation of Western LGBT political terminology to Turkey in order to illuminate how sexual politics have unfolded under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's AKP government. Under the AKP's neoliberal Islamic regime, Savcı shows, there has been a stark shift from a politics of multicultural inclusion to one of securitized authoritarianism. Drawing from ethnographic work with queer activist groups to understand how discourses of sexuality travel and are taken up in political discourse, Savcı traces the intersection of queerness, Islam, and neoliberal governance within new and complex regimes of morality. Savcı turns to translation as a queer methodology to think Islam and neoliberalism together and to evade the limiting binaries of traditional/modern, authentic/colonial, global/local, and East/West—thereby opening up ways of understanding the social movements and political discourse that coalesce around sexual liberation in ways that do justice to the complexities both of what circulates under the signifier Islam and of sexual political movements in Muslim-majority countries.
In Queer in Translation, Evren Savcı analyzes the travel and translation of Western LGBT political terminology to Turkey in order to illuminate how sexual politics have unfolded under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's AKP government. Under the AKP's neoliberal Islamic regime, Savcı shows, there has been a stark shift from a politics of multicultural inclusion to one of securitized authoritarianism. Drawing from ethnographic work with queer activist groups to understand how discourses of sexuality travel and are taken up in political discourse, Savcı traces the intersection of queerness, Islam, and neoliberal governance within new and complex regimes of morality. Savcı turns to translation as a queer methodology to think Islam and neoliberalism together and to evade the limiting binaries of traditional/modern, authentic/colonial, global/local, and East/West—thereby opening up ways of understanding the social movements and political discourse that coalesce around sexual liberation in ways that do justice to the complexities both of what circulates under the signifier Islam and of sexual political movements in Muslim-majority countries.
Evren Savcı is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University.
Acronyms
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Subjects of Rights and Subjects of Cruelty
2. Who Killed Ahmet Yıldız?
3. Trans Terror, Deep Citizenship, and the Politics of Hate
4. Critique and Commons under Neoliberalism
Conclusion: Queer Studies and the Question of Cultural Difference
Appendix: On Method and Methodology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.01.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 340 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4780-1136-X / 147801136X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4780-1136-1 / 9781478011361 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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