Violent intimacies : the trans everyday and the making of an urban world
Drawing on the history and ethnography of the trans communal life in Istanbul, Aslı Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Durham London : Duke University Press,
2024
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| Schlagworte: | Transgender people Gender identity Marginality, Social SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ Studies / Transgender Studies SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Drawing on the history and ethnography of the trans communal life in Istanbul, Aslı Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. "Violent Intimacies explores how trans people in Turkey seek to redefine conventional notions of kinship in order to survive violent efforts to define and repress sex/gender. While trans people are shaped by the cis-heteronormative institutions of state, family, and religion, they also act on these institutions to transform them, a process Aslı Zengin terms the "trans every day." Zengin argues that transness in Turkey has the power to make us rethink notions of violence and intimacy and the relationship between them. In the entangled world of the trans every day, family members, police officers, religious actors, medical and legal personnel, one currency is violence, and the other is intimacy. Through historiography of the Turkish trans community and ethnographic fieldwork with trans activists in Istanbul, the book maps how Turkish trans people ally with other marginalized subjects, how they challenge the spatial hierarchies of the city which enshrine gender and class norms, and how they resist medical control, violence, and surveillance. Through an analysis that is committed to theorizing trans subjectivity beyond the West, Zengin illustrates the capacity of the trans every day to produce moments of collective fugitivity, temporary worlds of suspension and transcendence, and spaces for restoration and recovery"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781478027751 1478027754 9781478025627 147802562X |