Queer in translation : sexual politics under neoliberal Islam /

Savcı, Evren,

Queer in translation : sexual politics under neoliberal Islam / Evren Savcı. - xv, 232 pages ; 24 cm - Perverse modernities . - Perverse modernities. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-224) and index.

Subjects of Rights and Subjects of Cruelty: The Production of an Islamic Backlash against Homosexuality in Turkey -- Who Killed Ahmet Yıldız? -- Trans Terror, Deep Citizenship, and the Politics of Hate -- Critique and Commons under Neoliberal Islam -- Queer Studies and the Question of Cultural Difference -- On Method and Methodology.

"During the 2000s Turkey experienced both the rise of robust and varied LGBT movements across the country, as well as the rise to power of the "moderate Islamist" Justice and Development Party (AKP). Queer in Translation offers an ethnography of sexual politics under Turkey's AKP regime that analyzes the travel and translation of modern sexual political vocabulary during the conditions of neoliberal Islam"--

9781478010319 9781478011361

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Sexual minorities--Political aspects--Turkey.
Gender identity--Terminology--Political aspects--Turkey.
Sexual minorities--Terminology--Political aspects--Turkey.
Sexual minorities--Religious aspects--Islam.
Sexism in language--Political aspects--Turkey.
Neoliberalism--Turkey.

HQ73.3.T9 / S283 2021

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