Violent intimacies : the trans everyday and the making of an urban world / Aslı Zengin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zengin, Aslı, 1981- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trans people--Violence against--Turkey.

Trans people.

Trans people--Turkey--Social conditions.

Gender identity--Turkey--Psychological aspects.

Gender identity.

Marginality, Social--Turkey.

Marginality, Social.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 271 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Displacement as emplacement

Extralegality, surveillance, and police violence

Psychiatric demarcations of sex/gender

Touch, gaze, and the heteropenetrative state

Justice, criminal l aw, and trans femicides

Funerals and experiments with trans kin.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Zengin, Aslı, 1981- Violent intimacies.

ISBN:

9781478027751

1478027754

9781478093947

1478093943

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.