Producing the category of 'Islamist' women: a Deleuzian perspective

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dc.authorwosidAksel, Hesna / AAF-8602-2021
dc.contributor.authorAksel, Hesna Serra
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-01T15:05:26Z
dc.date.available2021-11-01T15:05:26Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.department[Belirlenecek]
dc.description.abstractWhen addressing the Muslim women question, one of the problematic issues is the centrality of a religious tradition or a political ideology as a primary subject of inquiry. Muslim women are seen as the embodiment of a singular tradition or ideology, as in the case of Turkey, where the contemporary headscarf-wearing women are represented as 'Islamist'. In this project, I aim to problematise this stereotyping categorisation through ontological conceptualisations, inspired by the French thinker Gilles Deleuze. To implement the relational ontology of Deleuze, I examine headscarf contestations in Turkey through interviews conducted in two women's organisations in Turkey: Capital City Women's Platform (Baskent Kadin Platformu) and Hazar. I argue that the world constantly 'becomes' through flows of relations between multiple elements; therefore, it is a multiplicity, an intensity and fractured. With this Deleuzian ontology in mind, I consider the quotidian physical, material and social resources of my interviews with the aim of elucidating relations between a female body and the commodities produced by multiple socio-economic and political factors in Turkey. Then I address a Deleuzian understanding of categorisations such as class, gender, race and ideology. These categorisations, for Deleuze, are aggregations of multiplicities and fluidities forming specific fixations according to a range of ascribed characteristics, such as income, education, employment or dress codes. In this regard, I conclude that the label 'Islamist' restrains the relational and multiple characters of headscarf practices within a unifying category by attributing certain features to particular embodiments and materials.
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1464700120946603
dc.identifier.endpage148en_US
dc.identifier.issn1464-7001
dc.identifier.issn1741-2773
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85089133550
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage129en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/1464700120946603
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11491/7275
dc.identifier.volume22en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000557488900001
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ4
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.institutionauthor[Belirlenecek]
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSage Publications Inc
dc.relation.ispartofFeminist Theory
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subjectCategorisationen_US
dc.subjectDeleuzeen_US
dc.subjectheadscarfen_US
dc.subjectMuslim womenen_US
dc.subjectrelationalityen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.titleProducing the category of 'Islamist' women: a Deleuzian perspective
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