Sexuality and Gender in Turkey

15 episodes

In this podcast series, I interview young academics fresh from fieldwork, or still in the field researching sexuality and gender in Turkey. Each episode tackles an important topic in gender studies, but with a critical approach aimed at decolonizing global North dominated narratives of sexuality and gender. The ethnographic grounding of each episode helps us provide listeners with everyday life stories of individuals, communities, or state officials in relation to expressing, regulating or disciplining sexuality and gender in Turkey.

Episodes of the series

Episode 1
Effeminacy and the Construction of Masculinity in the Turkish Army: The Curious Case of the Pink Certificate
Published on Mar 8, 2019
Episode 2
Normative and Material Violences of Transnationally Migrating "Vulnerabilities": Queer Refugees in Turkey
Published on Apr 2, 2019
Episode 3
Neoliberal and Neoconservative Politics of Intimacy in Turkey: Sexting as a Means of Negotiating with "New Turkey"
Published on Apr 13, 2019
Episode 4
Socialist Masculinities in Turkey: The Intersection of Local Political Violence in the 1970s and Global Cold War Politics
Published on May 23, 2019
Episode 5
Deservingness and Transnationally Migrating Vulnerabilities: Queer Refugees in Turkey
Published on May 25, 2019
Episode 6
Politics of Water in Northern Cyprus: Gendered Symbolisms and Infrastructures of Power
Published on Jun 1, 2019
Episode 7
Legacies of Socialist Masculinities in Contemporary Oppositional Politics in Turkey
Published on Jul 17, 2019
Episode 8
Intersectional Resistance under British Colonialism and Turkish Occupation: Sexuality and Gender in Cyprus
Published on Jul 24, 2019
Episode 9
Biopolitics Meets Neoconservatism: Resisting the Silence over Gynaecological Violence in Turkey
Published on Sep 4, 2019
Episode 10
Neoliberal Reconstruction of Academia: Gendered Experiences of Precarization
Published on Dec 6, 2019
Episode 11
Where to Call Home and Where to Return as a Second Generation Turkish-German?: Gendered Experiences of Return Migration
Published on Jan 8, 2020
Episode 12
"Dutiful Daughters" and Transnationalism: Return Migration as a Resistance to Turkish Diasporic Patriarchy in Germany
Published on Feb 19, 2020
Episode 13
Patriarchal Bargains of a Woman Ethnographer: Researching Social Encounters between Syrian and Turkish Women
Published on Apr 26, 2020
Episode 14
Gendered Insecurities: (Im)possibilities for Solidarity against the Precarization of Academia
Published on May 11, 2020
Episode 15
Ableism, Hetero-Patriarchy and Nationalism: Gendered Representations of Disability in the Turkish Cinema
Published on Jan 10, 2021

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