LGBTI+s’ resistances and spatial productions in Istanbul: a path towards the right to the city

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2022-12

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Zerey Aydıntuğ, Neyir

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Building upon ethnographic material from the fieldwork conducted in Istanbul, this study examines LGBTI+s’ path towards the right to the city by looking into their experiences, the problems they encounter, and the resistance practices they come up with to tackle these obstacles. The utter aim of the thesis is to trace LGBTI+s’ efforts for the construction of an inclusive and non-discriminatory life for themselves and then for the society as a whole, by taking in-visibilities as a lens while looking into their micro and macro resistances and by highlighting their potential to produce spaces for furthering their resistance practices. Throughout the dissertation, while the spatial focus is put on the reproduction of everyday spaces, LGBTI+s’ ways to resist towards what is oppressing them, the resistances they come up with to overcome all that has been cornering them into an urban “spacelessness” are portrayed. Most importantly, the ways in which they contribute to the production of space in Istanbul are discussed while addressing the meaning-making processes and collectively accumulated designations they attach to different types of urban spatialities. The focus is put on the cases of their spatial productions and appropriations that are born out of their micro and macro resistance practices, which result into ‘cocoons’. It is furthermore argued that their pursuit for the right to the city is ingrained in their resistances and their spatial appropriations.

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LGBTI+, Resistance, Production of space, Istanbul, The right to the city

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N. Zerey Aydıntuğ, “LGBTI+s’ resistances and spatial productions in Istanbul: a path towards the right to the city,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2022.