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

• Thesis title in Czech: Flexibilní genderový diskurz o LGBT identitách v Turecku: Kritická diskurzivní analýza
• Thesis title in English: The Flexible Gender Discourse on LGBT Identities in Turkey: A Critical Discourse Analysis
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2021/2022
• Thesis type: diploma thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Programme Gender Studies (24-KGS)
• Supervisor: doc. Mgr. Kateřina Kolářová, Ph.D.
• Author: hidden - assigned by the advisor
• Date of registration: 31.05.2022
• Date of assignment: 31.05.2022
• Date of electronic submission: 29.06.2022
• Date of proceeded defence: 21.09.2022
• Course: Defense of the M. A. Diploma Thesis (YMGDEF00)
• Opponents: Ivy Helman, M.A., Ph.D.

Preliminary scope of work in English

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.