Between Patriarchal Intimacy and Sovereign Violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6436731 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oyman Basaran (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 182-196 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Middle East Women s Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1552-5864 • E-ISSN: 1558-9579 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/15525864-11826199 |
| OpenAlex | W4415375606 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
This article discusses the role of male circumcision in upholding Turkish religio-national unity by examining two logics of domination: the contractual logic and the sovereign logic. While the former provides male subjects with the opportunity of visibility, inclusion, and recognition on the condition of renouncing ethnic, racial, and political affiliations, the latter exposes them to arbitrary, unconditional, and unrestrained violence as punishment for their real or perceived disloyalty. Religious converts’ voluntary and forced circumcisions exemplify these structures, respectively. I argue that the two logics of domination intersect to purify the nation of so-called malicious forces and maintain its unity by regulating the gender, religious, and national boundaries of inclusion, exclusion, and belonging
Sacrificial Limbs
The Myth of the Military-Nation
Faces of the State
Violent Intimacies
Taking the matter into your own hands
Healing Secular Life
Secularism and State Policies toward Religion
The Straight State
Woman-Nation-State
Masculinities
The Imperial Circumcision Festival of 1582
Nocturnal queers
In the Shadows of Medicine and Modernity
Lullabies and the memory of pain
Bio-Sovereignty and the Emergence of Humanity
Neoliberalism, welfare, and mass male circumcisions in Turkey
Fair to Swear
Devout Muslim masculinities
The paradox of Turkish nationalism and the construction of official identity
The politics of male circumcision in the late Ottoman Empire
Feminism in Turkey
The Tradition Effect
The self-making of the scientific circumciser (fenni sünnetçi)
The "Honor" of the State
Maddening States
Finding the Man in the State
Necropolitics
Feeling Labor
You are Like a Virus
The EroticVaṭan[Homeland] as Beloved and Mother
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |