Hamide Elif Üzümcü
Biographic Data
| ID | 4156754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hamide Elif Üzümcü |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hamide Elif |
| FAMILY NAME | Üzümcü |
| SIGNATURE | ÜZÜMCÜ H E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9475-2315 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The sociological and literary legacy of Yaşar Kemal in the study of childhoods
“Children are human beings” was a foundational motto underpinning the emergence of the new sociology of childhood movement in Western academia during the 1980s. Childhood sociologists engaged with the notion of children as “human becomings” versus “human beings,” aiming to sociologically problematise and reconceptualise children as social actors. This paper revisits the motto, as an emblem of recognition of children’s agency, through reflections …
Navigating the moral landscapes in research into children’s digital lives: Reflections from Türkiye and the United Kingdom
Objective: This paper offers methodological reflections on the ethical challenges of researching children’s everyday lives in a digital context, drawing on two studies conducted in different international contexts: the United Kingdom (Everyday Childhoods) and Türkiye (Children’s Individual Privacy at Home and in Digital Environments). Method: Both studies were qualitative and ethnographic in character, concerned with understanding how we can stud…
Chronicles of Constrained Negotiations
The pains of being a child: a Turkish teenager struggles with school, homework, privacy, edifying outings and elusive privacy. Hamide Elif Üzümcü’s sociological short story looks at childhood and agency
Children's personal lives in the family: Achieving relational agency and individual privacy in intrafamilial relationships in Türkiye
This paper aims to explore how children's achieving privacy is interwoven with parental recognition of their agency, by providing empirical accounts of family lives in Türkiye. Building on a relational understanding of agency and privacy, it debates both concepts as social constructs that can be distinctively understood in western and Turkish cultures. It employs ethnographic research with children aged 10–14 years and their families to illustrat…
Shifting roles, changing relations: Considerations when doing ethnographic research with multiple families
When conducting ethnographic research, a family researcher becomes involved in the personal lives of the participants. This raises a number of concerns for the researcher when establishing relationships with family members. Drawing on qualitative data from research on children’s intra-familial privacy in Turkey, this article aims to increase awareness of several cultural aspects that may have an impact on how researchers build rapport with family…
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Shifting roles, changing relations: Considerations when doing ethnographic research with multiple families
When conducting ethnographic research, a family researcher becomes involved in the personal lives of the participants. This raises a number of concerns for the researcher when establishing relationships with family members. Drawing on qualitative data from research on children’s intra-familial privacy in Turkey, this article aims to increase awareness of several cultural aspects that may have an impact on how researchers build rapport with family…
Chronicles of Constrained Negotiations
The pains of being a child: a Turkish teenager struggles with school, homework, privacy, edifying outings and elusive privacy. Hamide Elif Üzümcü’s sociological short story looks at childhood and agency
Children's personal lives in the family: Achieving relational agency and individual privacy in intrafamilial relationships in Türkiye
This paper aims to explore how children's achieving privacy is interwoven with parental recognition of their agency, by providing empirical accounts of family lives in Türkiye. Building on a relational understanding of agency and privacy, it debates both concepts as social constructs that can be distinctively understood in western and Turkish cultures. It employs ethnographic research with children aged 10–14 years and their families to illustrat…
Navigating the moral landscapes in research into children’s digital lives: Reflections from Türkiye and the United Kingdom
Objective: This paper offers methodological reflections on the ethical challenges of researching children’s everyday lives in a digital context, drawing on two studies conducted in different international contexts: the United Kingdom (Everyday Childhoods) and Türkiye (Children’s Individual Privacy at Home and in Digital Environments). Method: Both studies were qualitative and ethnographic in character, concerned with understanding how we can stud…
The sociological and literary legacy of Yaşar Kemal in the study of childhoods
“Children are human beings” was a foundational motto underpinning the emergence of the new sociology of childhood movement in Western academia during the 1980s. Childhood sociologists engaged with the notion of children as “human becomings” versus “human beings,” aiming to sociologically problematise and reconceptualise children as social actors. This paper revisits the motto, as an emblem of recognition of children’s agency, through reflections …
Children's Rights and Participation (4 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Agency (philosophy (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Childhood studies (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Negotiation (2 works)