Workshop on Politics and Society: "Young Women’s Diffuse Feminism: The Context, the Networks, the Affects"

Özyeğin Üniversitesi

 

In the 2010’s, issues of gender have become some of the top matters that polarize societies worldwide. This fact applies to Turkey as well. One consequence of this development is a growing interest in feminism, especially among young women. The outcome may be described as "diffuse feminism" which attracts young women to itself in different degrees. This talk will focus on the transnational and the national context to this mobilization, the kind of networks that are at play and the primary affects that lead the young women into feminism in these circumstances.  

Biography:
Ayşe Akalın is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at Istanbul Technical University. She received her PhD in sociology at the City University of New York, Graduate Center. She has published in journals such as South Atlantic Quarterly, European Journal of Women’s Studies and Third World Quarterly. She is the editor of the book Temasın İmkanları: Değmek, Değer Üretmek, Dayanışmak that brings together recent ethnographies of affect and was published by Metis Yayınları in 2023.