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Breaking out of the box: increasing the representation of disability within archive science (2024)
Journal Article
Pearson, A., Griffith, M., Rakoska, B., Harrison, C., Schuitema, K., & Taşcıoğlu, E. (2024). Breaking out of the box: increasing the representation of disability within archive science. Archival Science, 24(1), 101-118. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-023-09429-3

This article explores the value of archives in increasing the representation of disabled people in social policy, and research narratives, as well as building an identity of the Disabled People’s Movement beyond traditional activism, and the inclusio... Read More about Breaking out of the box: increasing the representation of disability within archive science.

Circuits of Law: Everyday Criminalisation of Transgender Embodiment in Istanbul (2023)
Book Chapter
Tascioglu, E. (2023). Circuits of Law: Everyday Criminalisation of Transgender Embodiment in Istanbul. In G. Radics, & P. Ciocchini (Eds.), Criminal Legalities and Minorities in the Global South: Rights and Resistance in a Decolonial World (231-251). Springer

Historically, trans women of Turkey have been frequent targets of torture and ill-treatment by the police forces. Since the early 2000s, however, the strategies of the police to control trans women’s existence within the city has moved away from infl... Read More about Circuits of Law: Everyday Criminalisation of Transgender Embodiment in Istanbul.

Situating the Right to Enjoy Legal Capacity (2022)
Book Chapter
Harding, R., Donnelly, M., & Tascioglu, E. (2022). Situating the Right to Enjoy Legal Capacity. In Supporting Legal Capacity in Socio-Legal Context. Hart Publishing

States of Exception: Legal Governance of Trans Women in Urban Turkey (2020)
Journal Article
Tascioglu, E. (2020). States of Exception: Legal Governance of Trans Women in Urban Turkey. Social and Legal Studies, 30(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663920924780

Based on life story narratives of trans women, this article aims to shed light on the role of the law in their exclusion from public spaces in urban Turkey over the last four decades. In light of Giorgio Agamben’s work on the sovereign exception, I a... Read More about States of Exception: Legal Governance of Trans Women in Urban Turkey.

‘That’s a bit of a minefield!’: Supported Decision-Making in Intellectually Disabled People’s Intimate Lives (2020)
Book Chapter
Harding, R., & Tascioglu, E. (2020). ‘That’s a bit of a minefield!’: Supported Decision-Making in Intellectually Disabled People’s Intimate Lives. In Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and the Law (256 - 270). https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788111157

In this chapter, we explore the issue of support for intellectually disabled people in developing intimate relationships within the constraints of the regulatory position set out in the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Sexual Offences Act 2003. Throu... Read More about ‘That’s a bit of a minefield!’: Supported Decision-Making in Intellectually Disabled People’s Intimate Lives.

Supported Decision-Making from Theory to Practice: Implementing the Right to Enjoy Legal Capacity (2018)
Journal Article
Harding, R., & Tascioglu, E. (2018). Supported Decision-Making from Theory to Practice: Implementing the Right to Enjoy Legal Capacity. Societies, 25 - 25. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc8020025

The right to equal recognition before the law, protected by Article 12 of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), mandates the use of supported decision-making practices to enable disabled people, particu... Read More about Supported Decision-Making from Theory to Practice: Implementing the Right to Enjoy Legal Capacity.

I Lived and Learned': Violence, Survival and Knowledge in Trans Women's Lives in Turkey (2015)
Journal Article
Tascioglu, E. (2015). I Lived and Learned': Violence, Survival and Knowledge in Trans Women's Lives in Turkey. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 1452-1470

This article examines life story narratives of trans women in an effort to understand how violence produces and shapes their lives and subjectivities in Istanbul, Turkey. After delineating the main forms of violence that target them, it looks at the... Read More about I Lived and Learned': Violence, Survival and Knowledge in Trans Women's Lives in Turkey.