Violent Intimacies
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Violent Intimacies

The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Violent Intimacies

The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World

About this book

In Violent Intimacies, Asl? Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. Drawing on the history and ethnography of the trans communal life in Istanbul, Zengin develops an understanding of cisheteronormative violence that expands beyond sex, gender and sexuality. She shows how cisheteronormativity forms a connective tissue among neoliberal governmentality, biopolitical and necropolitical regimes, nationalist religiosity and authoritarian management of social difference. As much as trans people are shaped by these processes, they also transform them in intimate ways. Transness in Turkey provides an insightful site for developing new perspectives on statecraft, securitization and surveillance, family and kin-making, urban geography, and political life. Zengin offers the concept of violent intimacies to theorize this entangled world of the trans everyday where violence and intimacy are co-constitutive. Violent intimacies emerge from trans people's everyday interactions with the police, religious and medical institutions, street life, family and kinship, and trans femicides and funerals. The dynamic of violent intimacies prompts new understandings of violence and intimacy and the world-making struggles of trans people in a Middle Eastern context.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Violence & Intimacy
  7. Chapter One: Displacement as Emplacement
  8. Chapter Two: Extralegality, Surveillance, & Police Violence
  9. Chapter Three: Psychiatric Demarcations of Sex/Gender
  10. Chapter Four: Touch, Gaze, & the Heteropenetrative State
  11. Chapter Five: Justice, Criminal Law, & Trans Femicides
  12. Chapter Six: Funerals & Experiments with Trans Kin
  13. Coda
  14. Appendix: On Method & Methodology
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index