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A big family of bad bad bad girls! Critical study of knotted entanglements between body, kinship, time, memory and language among trans women who live in Istanbul

Caliskan, Dilara

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Title
A big family of bad bad bad girls! Critical study of knotted entanglements between body, kinship, time, memory and language among trans women who live in Istanbul
Author(s)
Caliskan, Dilara
Issue Date
2023-07-14
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
  • Greenberg, Jessica R.
  • Davis, Jenny L.
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
  • Greenberg, Jessica R.
  • Davis, Jenny L.
Committee Member(s)
  • Manalansan, Martin F.
  • Rothberg, Michael
  • Açıksöz, Can
Department of Study
Anthropology
Discipline
Anthropology
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Trans-Matrilineality, Lubunca, Trans/Queer Kinship, Language, Memory, Trans-Linguistics
Abstract
Drawing on trans ways of approaching experiences of being, becoming, and relating, this dissertation aims to tell a story of ‘not coincidental but difficult to explain’ entanglements of body, kinship, time, and language by following curious and unexpected links between family and memory. I look at mutually formed mother and daughter relationships and matrilineal ties that are formed among trans women in Turkey to develop a trans theoretical perspective that would allow us to slow down the almost automatic and often state-sponsored inextricabilities that link body, to identity, to family, to a specific time and space, language and memory.
Graduation Semester
2023-08
Type of Resource
Thesis
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