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Dissenting Through Dance examines how femme activists in contemporary Turkey deploy folk dance as a powerful tool of political resistance and collective solidarity. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, choreographic analysis, and archival research, the book examines how traditional dances, particularly those rooted in marginalized cultures such as Kurdish, Roma, Alevi, Laz, and Hemşin communities, are reimagined to contest misogyny, cultural erasure, and oppressive gender politics. Sevi Bayraktar brings to life the stories of feminist, LGBTQ+, and grassroots activists occupying public spaces with dance as a form of protest when conventional forms of assembly are suppressed or criminalized in Turkey. Working outward from these femmes’ stories, protests, and dances, Bayraktar argues that by reconfiguring Turkey’s folk-dance heritage for their contemporary political aims, dissenting femmes rechoreograph national space in opposition to the state as a way to reclaim the public sphere for pluralist democracy and to subvert hegemonic discourses about Turkish national identity, neoliberal economic development, and female and ethnic bodies. By moving together, activists subvert patriarchal norms, embody new visions of community, and create moments of hope, joy, and resistance even under conditions of surveillance and fear.
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Keywords
- 1960s and 1970s leftist activism in Turkey
- Art and activism in urban space
- Authoritarianism and dissent in contemporary Turkey
- Body politics and gender in contemporary Turkey
- Choreographic politics of protest
- Choreographic tactics
- Choreography of social movements
- Dance activism
- Dance and public space
- Dance ethnography and political protest
- Embodiment in activism
- Environmental movement in Turkey
- Environmental resistance in the Black Sea region
- Ethnic minorities and political marginalization
- Feminist body politics in the Middle East
- Folk dance education in Istanbul
- Gender and folk dance
- grassroots activism
- Improvisation and assembly in protest
- LGBTQ activism Turkey
- Protest movements and public space in the Middle East
- Social choreographies
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATQ Dance::ATQZ Folk dancing
- Turkification of folk dances
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DOI: 10.3998/mpub.14524804Editions