Overview
- Offers a theoretical contribution to queer theorizing and LGBT activism in Turkey
- Seeks to theorize talkback as an alternative and a queer response to authoritarian systems of power –a response that cannot be captured by “resistance” alone
- Focuses on how queer discourses criticize discourses and forms of being that contribute to the maintenance of dominant forms of existence such as sexism, heterosexism, and heteropatriarchy
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During the 2010s in Turkey, LGBTQ activists, groups, and individuals persisted against social, political, and legal adversity. Erasure during the Gezi Park Protests in 2013, a Pride parade ban in Istanbul in 2016, and indefinite ban on all LGBTQ events in Ankara in 2017 directly aimed at ending the activities, visibility, and existence of LGBTQ organization in the two biggest cities in Turkey. This work examines the ways in which LGBTQ activists engaged in talkback against these restrictions that impacted the lives of LGBTQ individuals and how said individuals endured such adversity. Focusing on the elements of discourse used by LGBTQ activists, this work argues oppositional discourses need to address as well as remedy the various elements of normative discourses—constructions of space, time, and affect—in order to be deemed a talkback, instead of merely perpetuating the normativities of oppressive discourses.
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Book Title: LGBTQ Activism in Turkey During 2010s
Book Subtitle: Queer Talkback
Authors: Ali E. Erol
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69097-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69096-0Published: 27 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69099-1Published: 29 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69097-7Published: 26 March 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 169
Topics: Middle Eastern Culture, Queer Studies, Media and Communication