Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam

by Evren Savci

Book Overview

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. 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. Drawing from ethnographic work with queer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147801136X
• ISBN13: 9781478011361
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"