This paper studies how legal regulation and practices affect transwomen of Turkey in their everyday lives. Based on an ethnographic study conducted in Istanbul, it delineates instances of an experience of legality which applies only to transwomen in a given space and time and brings them the constant and pervasive risk of being deprived of their most basic rights. Such an examination not only demonstrates law’s multiplicity and heterogeneity against its unitary and sovereigntist understandings but also invites for a rethinking of the intricate relation of law and its effects on lived experiences.
Rethinking law : everyday experiences of transgender women with the law in Turkey / H. Adak, A. Altınay, E. Düzel, E.E. Tascioglu. ((Intervento presentato al 12. convegno Annual Conference of European Society of Criminology (EUROCRIM) : Criminology in the 21st Century : a Necessary Balance between Freedom and Security tenutosi a Bilbao nel 2012.
Rethinking law : everyday experiences of transgender women with the law in Turkey
E.E. Tascioglu
2012
Abstract
This paper studies how legal regulation and practices affect transwomen of Turkey in their everyday lives. Based on an ethnographic study conducted in Istanbul, it delineates instances of an experience of legality which applies only to transwomen in a given space and time and brings them the constant and pervasive risk of being deprived of their most basic rights. Such an examination not only demonstrates law’s multiplicity and heterogeneity against its unitary and sovereigntist understandings but also invites for a rethinking of the intricate relation of law and its effects on lived experiences.
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