Feeling Makbul and as a Father

This chapter, which connects the country’s decades-long sociopolitical and economic transformations with men’s experience of fatherhood, points to the fact that makbulhood is susceptible to affective destabilization. And the interviewees under the impact of such transformations modify their affective practices constituting their makbulhood as a requirement for being a considerate father. Yet this is not a smooth process, because of their class position in a neoliberal age. They both privatize the way they and their children feel and are confined by their limited means. However, this effort is embedded in a negotiation with their adult children as part of a peculiar kind of politics of fear regarding fathers. They are as considerate as possible as long as their children consider their own actions components of their fathers’ makbulhood so that their fathers will not be the object of siyaset as a father.