Tankut Atuk
Biographic Data
| ID | 3734987 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tankut Atuk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tankut |
| FAMILY NAME | Atuk |
| SIGNATURE | ATUK T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-1926-0173 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World
Epidemiology of conspiracy: Infected vaccines, infectious patients, and superspreaders for hire
This article traces the viral life of HIV conspiracies in Turkey, not as peripheral noise but as central to the ways public health crises are interpreted, contested, and experienced. By offering "epidemiology of conspiracy" both as a metaphor and an analytic, the article treats disease conspiracies not as epistemological failures, but as vernacular tools of meaning making-fragile yet forceful ways of navigating biopolitical abandonment, instituti…
If I knew you were a travesti, I wouldn't have touched you: Iatrogenic violence and trans necropolitics in Turkey
Social pathologies and urban pathogenicity: Moving towards better pandemic futures
In this article, we suggest rethinking how to move forward in a way that better elucidates socio-economic and political factors driving inequities, and in turn points to more broad sweeping, deep-rooted changes necessary if pandemics in the future are finally going to be mitigated pre-emptively rather than reactively. To this end, we argue that a more comprehensive, flexible and incisive approach is necessary – a hermeneutic framework that focuse…
Cruising in-between immunity and community: A virtual ethnography of cruising in Istanbul
This article revisits the concept of (virtual) cruising with the purpose of uncovering an often-disregarded fact in queer theory: that cruising is equally about rejecting as it is about welcoming others/otherness. With the help of two critical conceptual tools, community and immunity , that I borrow from Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito, this paper discusses how a particular Geosocial Networking Application, Hornet , both enables and undermin…
Hungry Ethics: From doing research to becoming-sangtin
This essay offers the metaphor of hungry ethics to think of ethics alternatively outside the epistemic boundaries of Institutional Review Boards. It argues that due to the ephemeral, embodied, and shifting nature of research relationships, there can be no predetermined definition of what ethical research is in ethnographic contexts. By building on the notions of radical vulnerability and hungry translation as conceptualized by Richa Nagar in Hung…
Comrades-in-[Each Other's]-Arms: Homosociality, Masculinity and Effeminacy in the Turkish Army
In Turkey, the military regulation Article 17 prohibits men who suffer 'visible sexual identity and/or behavioral defects' from serving in the armed forces. The final decision of exemption, however, is made by doctors depending on the cogency of the femininity/effeminacy draftees perform. Based on seven oral histories of gay men and a trans woman who served in the army, and five oral histories of gay men, including myself, who obtained the certif…
Cruising in the Research Field: Queer, Feminist, and Cyber Autoethnography
This essay is based on a cyber autoethnographic research I have conducted on Hornet, a geosocial networking application (GNA) created for gay and bisexual men, without establishing a clear-cut distinction between my identity as a user and that as a researcher. Here I discuss how feminist and queer autoethnography in and of cybercultures can refrain from objectifying or exploiting others by enabling research relations that (a) are not hierarchical…
Pathopolitics: Pathologies and Biopolitics of PrEP
This paper unveils the pathologies that are produced and sustained by the pharmaceutical industry, specifically by Gilead Sciences, Inc. Broadly defined, pathopolitics is the politics of treating and/or reproducing pathologies. This paper examines pathopolitics in the context of PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis , an antiretroviral medicine that prevents HIV transmission. Although Gilead promises to prevent a pathology through PrEP, it reproduces…
If I knew you were a travesti, I wouldn't have touched you: Iatrogenic violence and trans necropolitics in Turkey
Comrades-in-[Each Other's]-Arms: Homosociality, Masculinity and Effeminacy in the Turkish Army
In Turkey, the military regulation Article 17 prohibits men who suffer 'visible sexual identity and/or behavioral defects' from serving in the armed forces. The final decision of exemption, however, is made by doctors depending on the cogency of the femininity/effeminacy draftees perform. Based on seven oral histories of gay men and a trans woman who served in the army, and five oral histories of gay men, including myself, who obtained the certif…
Social pathologies and urban pathogenicity: Moving towards better pandemic futures
In this article, we suggest rethinking how to move forward in a way that better elucidates socio-economic and political factors driving inequities, and in turn points to more broad sweeping, deep-rooted changes necessary if pandemics in the future are finally going to be mitigated pre-emptively rather than reactively. To this end, we argue that a more comprehensive, flexible and incisive approach is necessary – a hermeneutic framework that focuse…
Pathopolitics: Pathologies and Biopolitics of PrEP
This paper unveils the pathologies that are produced and sustained by the pharmaceutical industry, specifically by Gilead Sciences, Inc. Broadly defined, pathopolitics is the politics of treating and/or reproducing pathologies. This paper examines pathopolitics in the context of PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis , an antiretroviral medicine that prevents HIV transmission. Although Gilead promises to prevent a pathology through PrEP, it reproduces…
Epidemiology of conspiracy: Infected vaccines, infectious patients, and superspreaders for hire
This article traces the viral life of HIV conspiracies in Turkey, not as peripheral noise but as central to the ways public health crises are interpreted, contested, and experienced. By offering "epidemiology of conspiracy" both as a metaphor and an analytic, the article treats disease conspiracies not as epistemological failures, but as vernacular tools of meaning making-fragile yet forceful ways of navigating biopolitical abandonment, instituti…
Cruising in the Research Field: Queer, Feminist, and Cyber Autoethnography
This essay is based on a cyber autoethnographic research I have conducted on Hornet, a geosocial networking application (GNA) created for gay and bisexual men, without establishing a clear-cut distinction between my identity as a user and that as a researcher. Here I discuss how feminist and queer autoethnography in and of cybercultures can refrain from objectifying or exploiting others by enabling research relations that (a) are not hierarchical…
Pathopolitics: Pathologies and Biopolitics of PrEP
This paper unveils the pathologies that are produced and sustained by the pharmaceutical industry, specifically by Gilead Sciences, Inc. Broadly defined, pathopolitics is the politics of treating and/or reproducing pathologies. This paper examines pathopolitics in the context of PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis , an antiretroviral medicine that prevents HIV transmission. Although Gilead promises to prevent a pathology through PrEP, it reproduces…
Hungry Ethics: From doing research to becoming-sangtin
This essay offers the metaphor of hungry ethics to think of ethics alternatively outside the epistemic boundaries of Institutional Review Boards. It argues that due to the ephemeral, embodied, and shifting nature of research relationships, there can be no predetermined definition of what ethical research is in ethnographic contexts. By building on the notions of radical vulnerability and hungry translation as conceptualized by Richa Nagar in Hung…
Comrades-in-[Each Other's]-Arms: Homosociality, Masculinity and Effeminacy in the Turkish Army
In Turkey, the military regulation Article 17 prohibits men who suffer 'visible sexual identity and/or behavioral defects' from serving in the armed forces. The final decision of exemption, however, is made by doctors depending on the cogency of the femininity/effeminacy draftees perform. Based on seven oral histories of gay men and a trans woman who served in the army, and five oral histories of gay men, including myself, who obtained the certif…
Cruising in-between immunity and community: A virtual ethnography of cruising in Istanbul
This article revisits the concept of (virtual) cruising with the purpose of uncovering an often-disregarded fact in queer theory: that cruising is equally about rejecting as it is about welcoming others/otherness. With the help of two critical conceptual tools, community and immunity , that I borrow from Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito, this paper discusses how a particular Geosocial Networking Application, Hornet , both enables and undermin…
Social pathologies and urban pathogenicity: Moving towards better pandemic futures
In this article, we suggest rethinking how to move forward in a way that better elucidates socio-economic and political factors driving inequities, and in turn points to more broad sweeping, deep-rooted changes necessary if pandemics in the future are finally going to be mitigated pre-emptively rather than reactively. To this end, we argue that a more comprehensive, flexible and incisive approach is necessary – a hermeneutic framework that focuse…
If I knew you were a travesti, I wouldn't have touched you: Iatrogenic violence and trans necropolitics in Turkey
Epidemiology of conspiracy: Infected vaccines, infectious patients, and superspreaders for hire
This article traces the viral life of HIV conspiracies in Turkey, not as peripheral noise but as central to the ways public health crises are interpreted, contested, and experienced. By offering "epidemiology of conspiracy" both as a metaphor and an analytic, the article treats disease conspiracies not as epistemological failures, but as vernacular tools of meaning making-fragile yet forceful ways of navigating biopolitical abandonment, instituti…
Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World
Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)