Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics Under Neoliberal Islam Savci Evren
Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics Under Neoliberal Islam Savci Evren In Queer in Translation, Evren Savcı analyzes the travel and translation of Western LGBT political terminology to Turkey in…
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Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics Under Neoliberal Islam Savci Evren
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. 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. 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.
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