Working on Communities under the Political Domination (Methodological Approaches in Kurdish Studies: Theoretical and Practical Insights from the Field)
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Prof. Dr. Polat Sait ALPMAN Yalova Üniversitesi, Türkiye
| Bölüm Adı | Working on Communities under the Political Domination | ||
| Kitap Adı | Methodological Approaches in Kurdish Studies: Theoretical and Practical Insights from the Field | ||
| Bölüm Sayfaları | 85-100 | ||
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| Kitap Alt Türü | Alanında uluslararası yayınlanan kitap bölümü | ||
| Kitap Niteliği | Diğer uluslararası bilimsel kitap | ||
| Kitap Dili | İngilizce | Basım Tarihi | 01-2018 |
| DOI Numarası | – | ISBN | 978-1-4985-7521-8 |
| Basıldığı Ülke | İngiltere | Basıldığı Şehir | Londra |
| Kitap Linki | https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498575218/Methodological-Approaches-in-Kurdish-Studies-Theoretical-and-Practical-Insights-from-the-Field | ||
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| Working in dangerous fields, especially with those with excluded and dominated groups within society, is not preferred by many researchers. The same political domination that plagues minority groups penetrates academia and makes these fields risky, uncertain, and dangerous. Academia in Turkey has been mostly stripped of its independence due to the tremendous pressure of the state apparatus (Beşikçi 2013). Works that challenge the official state narratives on the issues like Kurdish, Cyprus, Armenian problems are seen as dangerous fields where one is discouraged from working. For this reason, it is difficult for researchers to produce critical and objective knowledge on anything, let alone on the issues that are considered “dangerous.” Scholars who study these issues often prefer to reiterate them from the perspective of the state. Hence, many of these academic endeavors are done to legitimize or hide political, economic, legal, and social domination. This chapter has two purposes. The main aim is to understand and explain the position of a researcher who works with subaltern groups under political domination and the pressure toward these subalterns. To accomplish this, I will draw from my research experiences in 2013–2014, involving ethnographic fieldwork with the Kurdish community in Istanbul. The other purpose of this paper is related to a discussion on “dangerous” fields. The chapter also demonstrates that it is necessary to consider the concept of “danger” as a methodological concept for fieldwork (Sluka 1995, 276–294; Peritore 1990, 359–372). |
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