Caner Hazar

Bilkent University, Political Science and Public Administration, Faculty Member

University of Connecticut, Sociology, Alumnus

Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Gender Studies, Visiting Graduate Student (2010)

Istanbul University, Women's Studies, Alumnus

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University of Toronto

Ali Bilgic

Loughborough University

Monash University

Linköping University

Beijing Foreign Studies University

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Lynne Segal

Birkbeck College, University of London

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Between Secularism and Pro-Islamism: A Historical Review of LGBT Activism During the Pro-Islam JDP Rule in Turkey

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The LGBT Movement in Turkey, 1980-2020: Applying a Heteronational Matrix Analysis

( http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:860667205 ) In this dissertation, I explore the question: wha... more ( http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:860667205 ) In this dissertation, I explore the question: what national dynamics influence the strategies and actions of LGBT activists in the Turkish context? I analyze the historical development and shifts in the grassroots LGBT activism in Turkey. I draw on semi-structured interviews with 36 activists from 6 cities in Turkey and from my knowledge as a participant in the LGBT activist community in Istanbul from 2009 to 2012. I introduce and develop the term “heteronational matrix” to explore how gender and sexualities are dynamically woven into the symbolic and material construction of the nation and influence LGBT activist strategies as the national political context changes over time. In Chapter 1, I discuss the social construction of gender, my heteronational matrix perspective, and social movements theory. In Chapter 2, I discuss the data collection process, sources of information, interview questions, and analysis. In Chapter 3, I explore how trans sex workers and the early LGBT movement started to frame gender and sexualities differently in the 1980s and the 1990s in interaction with the classed, political, religious, and gendered fault-lines of the Turkish nation-state and civil society. In Chapter 4, I analyze how LGBT activists developed a holistic LGBT activist perspective. They saw their historical situatedness (along with wars in the Middle East region, militarism in Turkey, and oppression of other ethnic and religious communities) as intrinsic to their gendered experience in the 2000s. In Chapter 5, I explore how LGBT activists responded to new political opportunities such as a new constitution making process, equality units at local municipalities, and the changing political context specific to the 2010-2020 period. In Chapter 6, I assess the contribution of the dynamic perspective of “heteronational matrix” to understand the intersection of gender, sexuality and nation, and as a contribution to social movements literature. I conclude with some possible future research directions.

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