"The Most Naked Phase of Our Struggle": Gendered Shaming and Masculinist Desiring-Production in Turkey's War on Terror


İBRAHİMHAKKIOĞLU F.

HYPATIA-A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY, cilt.33, sa.3, ss.418-433, 2018 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 33 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2018
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1111/hypa.12429
  • Dergi Adı: HYPATIA-A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.418-433
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The photographs that circulated on social media depicting (and shamelessly celebrating) the atrocious acts committed by the Turkish military forces in southeast Turkey are indicative of an aesthetic (re)construction of militarized masculinity that serves as a metonym for the nation-state. As violence is aestheticized in a gendered fashion in these depictions, the Kurdish resistance movement is shamed as feminine. Gendered shaming, in this context, conjoins racialization and gendering as subjugating mechanisms of the state. Women's peace movements seek to disrupt this heteropatriarchal logic of the state by countering the tripartite alignment of masculinity-power-domination with politicized art. In refusing the shame attributed to femininity, the shame that the state desires the Kurdish body to signify, they transfigure shame into honor and resistance.