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Zeynep K. Korkman, "Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey" (Duke UP, 2023)

Oct 5, 2023
Zeynep K. Korkman, author of Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey, discusses how Turkey's fortunetelling cafés provide shelter from societal pressures. She explores the use of divination as a tool for feminist politics, the significance of feeling labor for gender and sexual minorities, and the interplay of gender, labor, affect, and politics in postsecular Turkey.
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