Queer Experience in Turkey

Bibliographic Data

ID2371136
AuthorsEzgi Bora (0000-0002-0329-4804, Middle East Technical University), Kürşad Ertuğrul (0000-0002-1467-0473, Middle East Technical University, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume51
Issue2
Pages373-389
Publication date2025-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/08969205241236529
OpenAlexW4392515680
LanguageEN
References cited33

This study explores the possibility of critical agency of queer subjects in Turkey in terms of challenging and subverting normative structural constraints. These constraints are attested through expansive use of the concept of habitus including class, gender, family, ethnicity and religion. Our field study in which in-depth interviews have been conducted detected two types of habitus in the life experiences of queer subjects: critical and conservative. While the former enables critical agency, the latter undermines this possibility. On this ground, it is argued that exhibiting critical habitus appears to be the precondition of performing critical agency. We conclude that having multiple minority identities, education, and involvement in organizations develop a critical habitus enhancing critical queer agency

Critical theory · Cultural capital · Ethnic group · Expansive · Habitus · Normative · Political science · Queer · Queer theory · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Anthropology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy

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