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Author Savcı, Evren, author.

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

Publication Info. Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
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 Central Library - Circulating Collection  HQ73.3.T9 S283 2021    Available
Description xv, 232 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Perverse modernities
Perverse modernities.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Gender identity -- Terminology -- Political aspects -- Turkey.
Sexism in language -- Political aspects -- Turkey.
Neoliberalism -- Turkey.
LGBTQ+ people -- Terminology -- Political aspects -- Turkey.
LGBTQ+ Muslims.
ISBN 9781478010319 (hardcover)
1478010312
9781478011361 (paperback)
147801136X
Standard No. 40030495201
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