Methodology
“From the outset I admit that I was never a detached social scientist” (Maguire…
This paper is a case study of feminist resistance to right-wing authoritarianism.…
Participatory action research can take many different forms, but a common feature…
Since 2009, I have been an active participant in the movement that I study, and I…
Most of my analysis is based on a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of texts produced…
The analysis draws primarily on EŞİK’s statements, open letters, reports, social…
Most of these texts are available only in Turkish. A few of the texts (e.g. addressing…
I read the hundreds of statements and social media posts produced by EŞİK multiple…
What I offer is a close, holistic, and contextual reading and analysis of urgent…
I complement my holistic analysis of these publicly available material with my own…
My active engagement in the movement that I study gives me not only a situated knowledge…
My active involvement in the groups and campaigns discussed inevitably colors the…
Underlying my methodological approach are standpoint theories as articulated by scholars…
“a sociology beginning in a world of activity, the doings of actual people, and finding the social as the object of sociology’s inquiry into how their activities are concerted or coordinated. It explores the social from within the same everyday/everynight world as we experience in its living. The subject/knower of inquiry is not a transcendent subject but situated in the actualities of her own living, in relations with others… Whatever exists socially is produced by people ‘at work’, that is active, thinking, intending, feeling, in the actual, local settings of their living, and in relationships that are fundamentally among particular others” (Smith 1987: 703).…
Smith insists that “the sociologist is and must be an active participant in constructing…
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