Affective Activisms and the Right to Have Rights in Turkey

Eirini Avramopoulou is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece. Her research interests include anthropology of human rights, social movements, and activism; feminist and psychoanalytic approaches to subjectivity, biopolitics, and affect; queer theory and postcolonial studies. She is the author of Pornographics and Porno-tactics: Desire, Affect and Representation in Pornography (co-edited with Irene Peano, 2016, Punctum Books), Affect in the Political: Subjectivities, Power and Inequalities in the Modern World, 2018, Nisos: Athens (in Greek), Sexuality’s Object(ion)s. Critical Theories, Interdisciplinary Readings (co-edited with Pako Chalkidis), 2022, Topos: Athens (in Greek) and Critical Public Anthropology and Gender Studies (co-edited with Eleni Papagaroufali), 2024, Topos: Athens (in Greek).