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Affective Activisms and the Right to Have Rights in Turkey

Affective Activisms and the Right to Have Rights in Turkey

Avramopoulou, Eirini

Hardcover

Series: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times

General Gender StudiesSocial MovementsWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 3031831942
ISBN13: 9783031831942
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Feb 27 2025
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book presents a novel approach to the study of contemporary social movements and activism. Based on extensive ethnographic research of the life and politics of feminist, LGBTQI+, and women's religious groups in Istanbul from 2007 to 2015, it explores the affects, meanings, and interpretations these groups express in their activism--in particular, their strategic use of human rights' language to claim institutional and social legitimacy and their reinterpretation of gender/queer theory across politics of difference to make sense of global dynamics that affect their everyday lives. Chapters interweave personal accounts and life histories of individual activists with specific historical events to demonstrate the activists' dissidence regarding the conditions that have defined their differently marginalised positions in Turkey and the significance of the formation of unexpected alliances. The ambivalent, yet inescapable, bargaining tool of rights is analysed as a demand over affective democratic visions, citizenship and a life worth living, and thus the right to have rights, as it is argued, pushes us to reflect on how power works when the political and affective surplus value invested in the need to rethink of rights (even beyond human rights themselves) lies both in the search for ways of institutionalising and implementing rightful demands, as well as in outlining more affective visions of political resistance.

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