Transnational Feminist Approaches to Anti-Muslim Racism

Zeynep K. Korkman is assistant professor of Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include transnational feminisms; affect, labor, and intimacy; and religion, secularism, and the public sphere in Turkey and the larger Middle East. Her book manuscript, “Gendered Fortunes,” under contract with Duke University Press, focuses on the gendered economy of divinations in contemporary Turkey. Drawing upon ethnographic research and cultural analysis, the book explores how and why secular Muslim gender and sexual minorities of Turkey seek their gendered fortunes in divination in a country shaped by a secularist past and an Islamist present, a renewed gender conservatism, and economic neoliberalization. Korkman’s work has appeared in Gender and Society, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, European Journal of Cultural Studies, and Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies.

Sherene Halida Razack is Distinguished Professor and the Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies in the Department of Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. Her research and teaching focus on racial violence. She is the founder of the virtual research and teaching network Racial Violence Hub (Racialviolencehub.com). Her publications illustrate the thematic areas and anticolonial, antiracist feminist scholarship she pursues. Her recent books include Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy through Anti-Muslim Racism (forthcoming) and Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody (2015).