Queer In Translation: Sexual Politics Under Neoliberal Islam (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited By Jack Halberstam And Lisa Lowe)

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In Queer in Translation Evren Savci analyzes the travel and translation of Western LGBT political terminology to Turkey in order to illuminate how sexual politics have unfolded under Recep Tayyip Erdogans AKP government Under the AKPs neoliberal Islamic regime Savci shows there has been a stark shift from a politics of multicultural inclusion to one of securitized authoritarianism Drawing from ethnographic work with queer activist groups to understand how discourses of sexuality travel and are taken up in political discourse Savci traces the intersection of queerness Islam and neoliberal governance within new and complex regimes of morality Savci turns to translation as a queer methodology to think Islam and neoliberalism together and to evade the limiting binaries of traditionalmodern authenticcolonial globallocal and EastWestthereby opening up ways of understanding the social movements and political discourse that coalesce around sexual liberation in ways that do justice to the complexities both of what circulates under the signifier Islam and of sexual political movements in Muslimmajority countries