Gencoglu, Funda2020-12-142020-12-1420190192-5121http://hdl.handle.net/11727/5026In this article I analyze, on the basis of my personal experience, the discontents of contemporary Turkish politics; more specifically, neoliberal conservative hegemony, and its three manifestations: stability of instability; a religio-conservative gender regime; and anti-intellectualism. I illustrate how these manifestations are intertwined in the process of identity construction: how an individual's identity as a citizen, as a woman, as an academic is being constantly constructed/de-constructed/reconstructed in a manner integral to the social and political context. The contribution of this article is threefold: it shows how personal experiences are a legitimate source of knowledge; it enables an understanding of how political identities are in a constant state of making; it challenges dominant conceptions of politics and the political through challenging binaries such as individual/social, personal/political, and emotional/rational.enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessAutoethnographyhegemonyneoliberal conservatismanti-intellectualismgender climatepolitical identitiesArticle4146006120004871834000012-s2.0-85073968301