A Free Play: Dealing With Destabilizing Affects

This chapter, pointing out the power relations within which the interviewees live, explores how they experience a sense of masculinity that is nonessential/constructed, that is, feeling oneself to be not a “typical man” to whom each person who identifies as a man on the earth can relate irrespective of social backgrounds. Embodying what makbul corresponds to in practice when dealing with affects like shame, anger, and awkwardness that destabilize men’s sense of self, it investigates how men’s sense of being not a typical man is entangled with mukaddesatçı makbulhood, which is a particular way of feeling Turkish.