Producing the category of ‘Islamist’ women: a Deleuzian perspective
| Autor: | Hesna Serra Aksel |
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| Přispěvatelé: | [Belirlenecek] |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
060101 anthropology
Turkey media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) headscarf Subject (philosophy) Deleuze Gender studies 06 humanities and the arts Categorisation Muslim women Gender Studies Politics relationality 050903 gender studies 0601 history and archaeology Ideology Sociology 0509 other social sciences Centrality media_common |
| Zdroj: | Feminist Theory. 22:129-148 |
| ISSN: | 1741-2773 1464-7001 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1464700120946603 |
| Popis: | When 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. WOS:000557488900001 2-s2.0-85089133550 |
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