{"id":3596,"date":"2023-05-16T15:36:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T21:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/?page_id=3596"},"modified":"2023-05-30T13:15:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T19:15:13","slug":"a-researchers-identity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/winners-2023\/a-researchers-identity","title":{"rendered":"A Researcher’s Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

First Place 2023<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Submitted by:<\/td>Hande G\u00fcr<\/td><\/tr>
Department:<\/td>Anthropology<\/td><\/tr>
Faculty:<\/td>Arts<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2022, I traveled to T\u00fcrkiye, my country of origin, for a four-month ethnographic research project on the rise of Sufi -mystical Islamic- practices among mainly young, middle-class women of Turkish origin. Throughout my fieldwork, I repeatedly asked my interlocutors the question, “Can you tell me about yourself?” Little did I know that there would come a time when I would need to retreat to a quiet room, retrieve my laptop, and turn the same question inward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthropological fieldwork traditionally involved going to a ‘foreign’ place and describing ‘the other’ to academia upon return. However, studying a religion historically constructed as ‘other’ to the West requires self-reflexivity. As a young Turkish woman and daughter of a Sufi practitioner, I found myself questioning my position as an insider or a researcher in the field. With no one else to turn to, I took a seat and asked myself, “Can I tell a little bit about myself too, please?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First Place 2023 Submitted by: Hande G\u00fcr Department: Anthropology Faculty: Arts In the summer of 2022, I traveled to T\u00fcrkiye, my country of origin, for a four-month ethnographic research project on the rise of Sufi -mystical Islamic- practices among mainly young, middle-class women of Turkish origin. Throughout my fieldwork, I repeatedly asked my interlocutors the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":3688,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3596","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3596"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5288,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3596\/revisions\/5288"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}