Acronyms
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Subjects of Rights and Subjects of Cruelty
2. Who Killed Ahmet Y¿ld¿z?
3. Trans Terror, Deep Citizenship, and the Politics of Hate
4. Critique and Commons under Neoliberalism
Conclusion: Queer Studies and the Question of Cultural Difference
Appendix: On Method and Methodology
Notes
Bibliography
Index

In Queer in Translation, Evren Savc¿ analyzes the travel and translation of Western LGBT political terminology to Turkey in order to illuminate how sexual politics have unfolded under Recep Tayyip Erdöan's AKP government. Under the AKP's neoliberal Islamic regime, Savc¿ 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, Savc¿ traces the intersection of queerness, Islam, and neoliberal governance within new and complex regimes of morality. Savc¿ turns to translation as a queer methodology to think Islam and neoliberalism together and to evade the limiting binaries of traditional/modern, authentic/colonial, global/local, and East/West-thereby 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 Muslim-majority countries.

Evren Savc¿ is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University.