The Flexible Gender Discourse on LGBT Identities in Turkey: A Critical Discourse Analysis

• Název práce v češtině: Flexibilní genderový diskurz o LGBT identitách v Turecku: Kritická diskurzivní analýza
• Název v anglickém jazyce: The Flexible Gender Discourse on LGBT Identities in Turkey: A Critical Discourse Analysis
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2021/2022
• Typ práce: diplomová práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Program Genderová studia (24-KGS)
• Vedoucí / školitel: doc. Mgr. Kateřina Kolářová, Ph.D.
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno vedoucím/školitelem
• Datum přihlášení: 31.05.2022
• Datum zadání: 31.05.2022
• Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: 29.06.2022
• Datum proběhlé obhajoby: 21.09.2022
• Předmět: Defense of the M. A. Diploma Thesis (YMGDEF00)
• Oponenti: Ivy Helman, M.A., Ph.D.

Předběžná náplň práce v anglickém jazyce

The diploma thesis will examine the ways in which Turkish state uses gender discourse to construe a nation-based state protecting traditional values which strictly construct heteronormativity by being hostile to LGBTQ+ people. In particular, the thesis explores the ways in which the gender representation of the Turkish state excludes LGBTQ+ people in order to dictate compulsory heterosexuality to maintain its neoconservative and nationalist ideologies.
To this end, I will analyze the political statements, pronouncements, speeches, media and constitutions. Considering that the current gender discourse of Turkish state is explicitly patriarchal, the aim is to see how this affects LGBTQ+ community, activism and organizations. Overall, the aim of the research is to examine how the politics of the present national project creates exclusiveness, hate and danger for the LGBTQ+ community in Turkey through heteronormative and binary gender discourses; and how these negative effects are used to foster and uphold nationalist/imperialist politics of the Turkish state. As methodology, depending on the epidemiological situation, I will use cultural products, media, public discourses including pronouncements, speeches, statements, and interviews with the members of the community and the organizations. Bibliography will include literature about state politics, gender and sex politics, written both in English and Turkish.