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Büyük Beklentiler: Kendi Etnik Grubunu Çalışmak

Great Expectations: Studying My Own Community

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  • Journal of Caucasian Studies

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  • 2017

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The literature on methodology in social sciences underlines advantages for the insider researcher in addition to more subtle problems and pitfalls in terms of the relationship between the researcher and the researched. This paper aims to explore my experiences as the insider researcher studying Circassians in Turkey, my own community and discuss their implications for researching Circassians in particular and ethnic groups in general. As the insider researcher position provided “great expectations” on the side of the researched and hence some critical advantages in the field for the researcher, the dual categories of insider and outsider are in reality rather fluid and contested. This article is an attempt to explore space in between: the negotiations, complexities and fluidities of positionality in the field and hence in the processes of academic knowledge production.
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Abstract (Original Language): 
Sosyal bilimlerde araştırmacının ‘içeriden’, araştırılan grubun bir üyesi olması, araştırmacı ve araştırılan arasındaki ilişki ve mesafe açısından çıkabilecek sorunların dışında, araştırmacı için genelde avantajlı bir konum olarak kabul edilmektedir. Bu makale benim ‘içeriden’ bir araştırmacı olarak Türkiye’deki Çerkesleri çalışma deneyimlerimi ve bu deneyimlerin dar anlamda Çerkesleri, geniş anlamda ise etnik grupları çalışma açısından sonuçlarını tartışmayı hedeflemektedir. İçeriden araştırma yapma pozisyonu, araştırılanlar açısından “büyük beklentiler” ile karşılansa ve araştırmacı açısından da önemli avantajlar sağlasa da, ‘içeriden’ veya ‘dışarıdan olmak’ verili pozisyonlar değildir, araştırmacının akışkan olarak dahil olduğu veya dışlandığı, müzakere edilen ve mücadeleli alanlardır. Bu makale içeri ile dışarı arasındaki alana, sahada ve dolayısıyla da akademik üretim süreçlerinde konumsallığın getirdiği müzakerelere, karmaşıklıklara ve akışkanlıklara bakmayı hedeflemektedir.
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