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- Çağatay, Selin, 1983, et al.
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Conferencing in times of climate crisis and Covid-19: feminist and queer reflections on the digital shift in academic work
- 2024
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Ingår i: Globalizations. - 1474-7731.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article employs a holistic understanding of environmental, social, and economic sustainability to explore the interaction between neoliberalism, climate crisis, digitalization, and academic work with a focus on its everyday aspects. Drawing our experience of organizing an online conference during the Covid-19 pandemic and our dialogue with conference participants, we first problematize the presumed disembodiment of digital exchange and suggest a nuanced understanding of physicality’s role in knowledge production. We then explore the impact of the changing times and spaces of academic work on bodies and minds and the boundaries between private and public realms. Finally, we challenge the notion of digital solutionism by highlighting the implications of inhabiting digital platforms as spaces for knowledge production. While there is no simple solution to the problems around the digital shift in academic work and conferencing, we argue, downsizing can be a counteraction to platform capitalism in times of the climate crisis.
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- Cagatay, Selin, 1983, et al.
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Varieties of exceptionalism: A conversation
- 2023
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Ingår i: Transforming identities in Europe. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge. - 9781003245155 - 9781032151113
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter explores discourses of exceptionalism, their embeddedness in particular contextual landscapes, exclusions, and transnational circulations across the global North, East and South. Based on a conversation between the authors around the ways in which national exceptionalism is articulated in three seemingly different landscapes – Scandinavian countries, Russia, and Turkey – the chapter highlights the relational and contextual character of particular discourses of exceptionalism, be they celebratory, pessimistic or characterised by a sense of urgency. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship on genders, sexualities, and (trans-) nationalisms, we explore how these discourses are entwined with notions of modernity, national sovereignty, and superiority, contingent on the exclusion of racialized, classed, and sexualized others. While exceptionalism is no coherent or unified discourse but should rather be seen as ambiguous, hybrid, and varied, we argue that as a concept it provides a fruitful analytical entrance to transnational feminist theorizing, enabling an understanding of the systemic as well as historically specific dynamics involved in activist practices and gender and sexual politics. Our findings call attention to the role of exceptionalism in the global co-construction of ‘leaders’ and ‘victims’ in discourses of gender equality and women’s and LGBTI+ rights.
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- Arik, H., et al.
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Unsettling the political: conceptualizing the political in feminist and LGBTI plus activism across Russia, the Scandinavian countries, and Turkey
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Feminist Journal of Politics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1461-6742 .- 1468-4470. ; 25:4, s. 687-710
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article aims to expand the ongoing theoretical debate on the broadened and context-specific notion of politics by offering an empirically nuanced conceptualization of the political based on the study of feminist and lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex (LGBTI+) activism in Russia, Turkey, and the Scandinavian countries. We use a multi-scalar transnational approach to foreground connectivities across regions to challenge nation-bound and state-centric perspectives on politics and reveal the various formulations beyond the formal/informal divide. Case studies from feminist and LGBTI+ activists and minority organizations demonstrate context-specific ways of inhabiting or distancing from politics. Drawing on interdisciplinary feminist scholarship and a Gramscian approach to civil society, we challenge the narrow articulation of politics either as antagonism or contestation. In doing so, we highlight the political expressions that do not neatly fit into the expected forms of politics, yet are motivated by a commitment to shaping new ways of living together.
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- Çağatay, S., et al.
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Solidarities Across: Borders, Belongings, Movements
- 2022
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Ingår i: Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey. - Cham : Springer. - 2947-4361. - 9783030844509 ; , s. 143-190
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- What is the role of affinity, friendship, and care, as well as of conflict and dissonance, in creating possibilities of and hindrances to transnational solidarities? Building on an emergent literature on everyday and affective practices of solidarity, this chapter offers a set of diverse ethnographic accounts of activist work oriented to recognizing and challenging inequalities and relations of oppression based on race, ethnicity, religion, and class, alongside gender and sexuality. Engaging a variety of material from feminist and LGBTI+ activisms, the chapter highlights ambivalences inscribed in the making of collective resilience, resistance, and repair by: First, problematizing activist efforts to build solidarity across geographic and contextual divides; second, highlighting the importance of solidarity as shared labor in challenging state actors and institutions and reversing colonial processes; and third, unpacking the implications of transnational solidarity campaigns in different locales. The chapter ends with reflections on how feminist scholarship can advance conceptualizations of solidarity across difference.
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- Çağatay, S., et al.
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Spaces of Appearance and the Right to Appear: March 8 in Local Bodily Assemblies
- 2022
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Ingår i: Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 2947-4361. - 9783030844509 ; , s. 191-237
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Aiming to deepen our understandings of corporeal and embodied dimensions of transnational feminist and LGBTI + activism, this chapter is driven by the question: Why does the body still remain an important instrument of queer and feminist struggles in the era of digital solidarities? Following the International Women’s Day in diverse locales in Sweden, Turkey, and Russia, the ethnographic analyzes in this chapter bring forth the significance of embodied forms of resistance for the (re)making of space and explore how resistance flows across various scales. Engaging with the ambiguities of embodied resistance, this chapter visualizes the potential of corporeal modes of resistance to shift from the individual to the collective, showing that attention to multiple scales of resistance can provide more fine-grained understandings of the possibilities and constraints within which feminist and LGBTI+ struggles are located.
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- Çağatay, S., et al.
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Transforming Conditions of Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism
- 2022
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Ingår i: Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey : transnationalizing spaces of resistance / Selin Çagatay, Mia Liinason, Olga Sasunkevich.. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 2947-4361. - 9783030844530 ; , s. 83-142
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter provides an in-depth understanding of the conditions for feminist and LGBTI+ activism in Russia, Turkey, and Scandinavia, including legislative frames, access to resources and funding, employment conditions, and geographical and geopolitical locality. Instead of taking the relations between the state, civil society, and feminist and LGBTI+ activists for granted as an overarching explanatory model for comparative analysis, the chapter examines the multifaceted nature of the relations between the state, civil society and feminist and LGBTI+ activists in Russia, Turkey, and Scandinavia. Further, the chapter scrutinizes transnational, national, and local scales that influence the conditions of activism across the three research contexts. The discussions in the chapter are wrapped up by an interrogation of how donor politics influence the activist agenda in Russia, Turkey, and Scandinavia and of what resistant practices activists lean on in their everyday work.
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- Çağatay, S., et al.
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Transnational Spaces of Resistance
- 2022
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Ingår i: Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 2947-4361. - 9783030844509 ; , s. 49-82
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter lays out the theoretical foundation of the book. It conceptualizes resistance as a space in-between small-scale mundane practices with a low level of collective organizing and large-scale protest activities which often exemplify resistance in social movement studies. In line with feminist and queer conceptualization of resistance, the authors suggest to examine multi-scalarity of resistant practices. The chapter attends to three scales of feminist and LGBTI+ activism in Russia, Turkey, and Scandinavia. The first scale analyzes activism in relation to the civil society-state-market triad. The second scale problematizes the notion of solidarity in relations between feminist and LGBTI+ activists from different geopolitical regions and countries as well as between small- and large-scale activist organizations and groups. Finally, the third scale focuses on individual resistant practices and the role of individual bodies in emergence of collective political struggles.
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