A comparative analysis of far-right politics across Europe and the Middle East with a focus on gender and sexuality.
Queer Feminist Critiques provides an empirically grounded exploration of different case studies on anti-LGBTQ and anti-gender mobilizations of the far-right in Europe and the Middle East. The contributions engage with multilayered histories of gender and sexuality politics that connect the Middle East and Europe, informed by histories of colonialism, racism, and border controls.
A second, underlying objective of this volume is to contribute to decolonized knowledge productions by de-centering Europe and simultaneously de-exceptionalizing the Middle East. The contributors commit to respecting the heterogeneity and complexity of these regions by focusing on grounded and life experiences. Ultimately, this volume illustrates a conceptualisation of the broad spectrum of far-right politics and queer feminist critiques as manifested in a wide array of contexts, including academia, politics and everyday lives.
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Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Anti-Genderism, Homophobia and Far-Right Politics in the Middle
East and Europe
Nadje Al Ali, Tunay Altay and Katharina Galor
I. Framing Far-Right politics: Queer Feminist Perspectives
1. The Gender Wars: New Conundrums of Our Times
Deniz Kandiyoti
2. Feminist and Queer Politics without Guarantees: A Rejoinder to Deniz
Kandiyotis Gender Wars
Evren Savci
II. Anti-LGBTQ and Anti-Feminist Mobilisations in the Sphere of Politics
3. The Rise of Israeli Far-Right Politics: A Queer Feminist Analysis
Saed Atshan & Katharina Galor
4. For the Sake of Kids: National Security and Family Values in the
Ukrainian Sexuality Education Debate
Maryna Shevtsova
5. Attacks on the Academy from Gender Studies to Post-Colonialism: Science,
Secularity and the Far Right in France, Germany and Beyond
Elizabeth Berman
III. Comparative Studies between the Middle East and Europe
6. Anti-Feminist Strategies of Right-Wing Parties in Turkey and Germany: A
Comparative Analysis of Gender and Sexuality Politics
Nur Sinem Kourou and Victoria Scheyer
7. Homophobia without Borders: Dismantling Homophobias Architecture in
Cairos Bathhouse Raid and Berlins Rave Crackdown
Ahmed Awadalla
8. From Belfast to Diyarbakr: Transnational Conversations on Conflict and
LGBTI+ Politics in the Archive
Hakan Sandal-Wilson
IV. Bottom-Up Interventions and Resistance
9. Feminist and Queer Action and Art in Polands Illiberal Democracy
Pawel Leszkowicz & Tomasz Kitlinski
10. Why Do We Care? Neo-Liberal Governance and Emergence of the Feminist
Subject in Iran
Firoozeh Farvardin
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