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Queer in translation : sexual politics under neoliberal Islam /

"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."--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Savcı, Evren (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Series:Perverse modernities.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:"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."--
"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"--Publisher's description.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 232 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1478012854
9781478012856