Affective Activisms and the Right to Have Rights in Turkey

This book presents a novel approach to the study of contemporary social movements and activism. Based on extensive ethnographic research of the life and politics of feminist, LGBTQI+, and women's religious groups in Istanbul from 2007 to 2015, it explores the affects, meanings, and interpretations these groups express in their activism-in particular, their strategic use of human rights' language to claim institutional and social legitimacy and their reinterpretation of gender/queer theory a ...