Sexual politics in Turkey, particularly during the reign of the neoliberal conservative AKP, have represented both the embodiment of moral standards and various forms of opposition. The queer movement experienced its most prominent public presence during the Gezi uprisings, which subsequently op..
Birgan Gokmenoglu, Derya Özkaya, and Evren Savcı
Birgan Gokmenoglu is Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University. She is a political ethnographer who works on transformative grassroots politics, theories and experiments of democracy, social justice, environmental politics, and time and temporality. She holds a PhD in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics (LSE). Her work has been published in academic journals such as The British Journal of Sociology and Social Movement Studies.
Evren Savcı is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Her first book Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam (2021, DUP) analyzes sexual politics under contemporary Turkey’s AKP regime with an eye to the travel and translation of sexual political vocabulary. Her second book project, tentatively entitled Monogamy and Its Discontents, turns to the political economy of monogamy. In it, she discusses the establishment of it as a central tenet of civilized sexual morality, and attends to the current neoliberal incorporation of its alternatives and restoration of it distributive logic. Savcı’s work on the intersections of language, knowledge, sexual politics, neoliberalism, and religion has appeared in Journal of Marriage and the Family, Ethnography, Sexualities, Political Power and Social Theory, Theory & Event, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, GLQ, and New Perspectives on Turkey, and in several edited collections.