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Queer in translation : sexual politics under neoliberal Islam / Evren Savcı.

By: Savcı, Evren [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Perverse modernitiesPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021Description: xv, 232 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781478010319; 9781478011361Subject(s): 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 -- TurkeyAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Queer in translationDDC classification: 306.7609561 LOC classification: HQ73.3.T9 | S283 2021
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books The BIAA David H. French Library
Shelf 63 - Reading Room
H2p SAVCI 32700 Not for loan BOOKS-000000025698

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"-- Provided by publisher.