Ayşe Polat
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 823370 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ayşe Polat |
| NOMBRES | Ayşe |
| APELLIDO | Polat |
| FIRMA | POLAT A |
| AFILIACIONES | Bogaziçi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8739-6372 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Trace of the tracer
This study examines how digital health technologies were implemented in pandemic response, based on interviews and focus groups with frontline health workers in Türkiye. While the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of digital tools as essential solutions for crisis management, the findings reveal a more ambivalent reality.Digital systems improved coordination, replaced paper-based chaotic workflows, and enabled real-time data sharing. How…
East of Empire
Disciplinary incorporation
Drawing on a critical interpretive synthesis of interdisciplinary scholarship, this article examines how complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) expanded and was institutionalized in Europe and North America from the 1970s onward amid broader transformations in medicine, society, and global governance. Contributing to Health’s 30th anniversary special issue, this article identifies six intersecting conditions that collectively enabled CAM’s …
Stepping outside the clinic walls
While existing literature has largely examined healthcare delivery within hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study extends the inquiry to the spatial dimensions of public health work in urban settings. It explores the experiences of health professionals engaged in home-based contact tracing in Türkiye, focusing on their perceptions of social determinants of health through place. Semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions wer…
The Role of Imam-Hatips Deployed in Türkiye’s Covid-19 Pandemic Response
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Türkiye implemented strict measures like curfews, school closures, and isolation rules, which also affected religious practices. The Presidency of Religious Affairs (PRA) suspended congregational prayers, leading to imam-hatips being exempt from their mosque duties and redeployed to assist with contact tracing. Unlike many countries, Türkiye implemented home-based contact tracing, where health professionals monitored…
Thematic Analysis in Qualitative Research
This article addresses common pitfalls in the production and presentation of findings in qualitative research, with a focus on thematic analysis. It offers a practical guidance grounded in the theoretical and epistemological foundations of qualitative inquiry, illustrated with concrete examples drawn from the author's experience mentoring students and reviewing qualitative reports. These examples are used not only to clarify reporting challenges,…
Introduction to 'Islamic politics and the imaginative
This introduction examines the theoretical and methodological challenges of studying imaginative elements in Islamic politics while proposing new frameworks for understanding intangible realms in political formation. Moving beyond traditional approaches that either dismiss imagination as irrational or reduce Islamic politics to textual analysis, we argue for engaging with imagination as a critical interface between material and metaphysical domai…
Paths well travelled
Are we heroes or couriers? A phenomenological study on reappropriation of professional subjectivity and agency among health professionals during Covid-19 contact tracing in Türkiye
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Türkiye implemented a distinctive contact tracing approach involving in-person home visits by medical professionals to individuals who tested positive for the virus. This study examines the experiences of health professionals involved in contact tracing, exploring how they reappropriated their professional subjectivity and agency during their deployment in this role. It is an interpretive phenomenological qualitative…
Hicret K. Toprak, Mihrap, Minber ve Devlet
İlk sayısını Haziran 2011'de çıkaran İnsan & Toplum Dergisi, yılda iki kez yayımlanan, hem Türkçe hem de İngilizce yazılara yer veren hakemli bir dergidir. İnsan & Toplum, akademik yayın dünyasında görülen iki temel eksikliği duyumsayarak yola çıktı. Bunlardan biri, kendi disipliner sınırlarına hapsolmuş akademyanın insan ve toplumu birbirinden izole ederek ayrıştırarak çalışma yapmasının bir teamül haline gelmiş olmasıdır. İkincisi de, disiplinl…
A Conflict on Baha‘ism and Islam in 1922
İlk sayısını Haziran 2011'de çıkaran İnsan & Toplum Dergisi, yılda iki kez yayımlanan, hem Türkçe hem de İngilizce yazılara yer veren hakemli bir dergidir. İnsan & Toplum, akademik yayın dünyasında görülen iki temel eksikliği duyumsayarak yola çıktı. Bunlardan biri, kendi disipliner sınırlarına hapsolmuş akademyanın insan ve toplumu birbirinden izole ederek ayrıştırarak çalışma yapmasının bir teamül haline gelmiş olmasıdır. İkincisi de, disiplinl…
A Comparison of Charles Taylor and Talal Asad on the Issue of Secularity
İlk sayısını Haziran 2011'de çıkaran İnsan & Toplum Dergisi, yılda iki kez yayımlanan, hem Türkçe hem de İngilizce yazılara yer veren hakemli bir dergidir. İnsan & Toplum, akademik yayın dünyasında görülen iki temel eksikliği duyumsayarak yola çıktı. Bunlardan biri, kendi disipliner sınırlarına hapsolmuş akademyanın insan ve toplumu birbirinden izole ederek ayrıştırarak çalışma yapmasının bir teamül haline gelmiş olmasıdır. İkincisi de, disiplinl…
Thematic Analysis in Qualitative Research
This article addresses common pitfalls in the production and presentation of findings in qualitative research, with a focus on thematic analysis. It offers a practical guidance grounded in the theoretical and epistemological foundations of qualitative inquiry, illustrated with concrete examples drawn from the author's experience mentoring students and reviewing qualitative reports. These examples are used not only to clarify reporting challenges,…
Introduction to 'Islamic politics and the imaginative
This introduction examines the theoretical and methodological challenges of studying imaginative elements in Islamic politics while proposing new frameworks for understanding intangible realms in political formation. Moving beyond traditional approaches that either dismiss imagination as irrational or reduce Islamic politics to textual analysis, we argue for engaging with imagination as a critical interface between material and metaphysical domai…
Paths well travelled
Are we heroes or couriers? A phenomenological study on reappropriation of professional subjectivity and agency among health professionals during Covid-19 contact tracing in Türkiye
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Türkiye implemented a distinctive contact tracing approach involving in-person home visits by medical professionals to individuals who tested positive for the virus. This study examines the experiences of health professionals involved in contact tracing, exploring how they reappropriated their professional subjectivity and agency during their deployment in this role. It is an interpretive phenomenological qualitative…
A Comparison of Charles Taylor and Talal Asad on the Issue of Secularity
İlk sayısını Haziran 2011'de çıkaran İnsan & Toplum Dergisi, yılda iki kez yayımlanan, hem Türkçe hem de İngilizce yazılara yer veren hakemli bir dergidir. İnsan & Toplum, akademik yayın dünyasında görülen iki temel eksikliği duyumsayarak yola çıktı. Bunlardan biri, kendi disipliner sınırlarına hapsolmuş akademyanın insan ve toplumu birbirinden izole ederek ayrıştırarak çalışma yapmasının bir teamül haline gelmiş olmasıdır. İkincisi de, disiplinl…
A Conflict on Baha‘ism and Islam in 1922
İlk sayısını Haziran 2011'de çıkaran İnsan & Toplum Dergisi, yılda iki kez yayımlanan, hem Türkçe hem de İngilizce yazılara yer veren hakemli bir dergidir. İnsan & Toplum, akademik yayın dünyasında görülen iki temel eksikliği duyumsayarak yola çıktı. Bunlardan biri, kendi disipliner sınırlarına hapsolmuş akademyanın insan ve toplumu birbirinden izole ederek ayrıştırarak çalışma yapmasının bir teamül haline gelmiş olmasıdır. İkincisi de, disiplinl…
Hicret K. Toprak, Mihrap, Minber ve Devlet
İlk sayısını Haziran 2011'de çıkaran İnsan & Toplum Dergisi, yılda iki kez yayımlanan, hem Türkçe hem de İngilizce yazılara yer veren hakemli bir dergidir. İnsan & Toplum, akademik yayın dünyasında görülen iki temel eksikliği duyumsayarak yola çıktı. Bunlardan biri, kendi disipliner sınırlarına hapsolmuş akademyanın insan ve toplumu birbirinden izole ederek ayrıştırarak çalışma yapmasının bir teamül haline gelmiş olmasıdır. İkincisi de, disiplinl…
Are we heroes or couriers? A phenomenological study on reappropriation of professional subjectivity and agency among health professionals during Covid-19 contact tracing in Türkiye
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Türkiye implemented a distinctive contact tracing approach involving in-person home visits by medical professionals to individuals who tested positive for the virus. This study examines the experiences of health professionals involved in contact tracing, exploring how they reappropriated their professional subjectivity and agency during their deployment in this role. It is an interpretive phenomenological qualitative…
The Role of Imam-Hatips Deployed in Türkiye’s Covid-19 Pandemic Response
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Türkiye implemented strict measures like curfews, school closures, and isolation rules, which also affected religious practices. The Presidency of Religious Affairs (PRA) suspended congregational prayers, leading to imam-hatips being exempt from their mosque duties and redeployed to assist with contact tracing. Unlike many countries, Türkiye implemented home-based contact tracing, where health professionals monitored…
Thematic Analysis in Qualitative Research
This article addresses common pitfalls in the production and presentation of findings in qualitative research, with a focus on thematic analysis. It offers a practical guidance grounded in the theoretical and epistemological foundations of qualitative inquiry, illustrated with concrete examples drawn from the author's experience mentoring students and reviewing qualitative reports. These examples are used not only to clarify reporting challenges,…
Introduction to 'Islamic politics and the imaginative
This introduction examines the theoretical and methodological challenges of studying imaginative elements in Islamic politics while proposing new frameworks for understanding intangible realms in political formation. Moving beyond traditional approaches that either dismiss imagination as irrational or reduce Islamic politics to textual analysis, we argue for engaging with imagination as a critical interface between material and metaphysical domai…
Paths well travelled
Trace of the tracer
This study examines how digital health technologies were implemented in pandemic response, based on interviews and focus groups with frontline health workers in Türkiye. While the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of digital tools as essential solutions for crisis management, the findings reveal a more ambivalent reality.Digital systems improved coordination, replaced paper-based chaotic workflows, and enabled real-time data sharing. How…
East of Empire
Disciplinary incorporation
Drawing on a critical interpretive synthesis of interdisciplinary scholarship, this article examines how complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) expanded and was institutionalized in Europe and North America from the 1970s onward amid broader transformations in medicine, society, and global governance. Contributing to Health’s 30th anniversary special issue, this article identifies six intersecting conditions that collectively enabled CAM’s …
Stepping outside the clinic walls
While existing literature has largely examined healthcare delivery within hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study extends the inquiry to the spatial dimensions of public health work in urban settings. It explores the experiences of health professionals engaged in home-based contact tracing in Türkiye, focusing on their perceptions of social determinants of health through place. Semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions wer…
Sociology (5 obras) · Islamic Studies and History (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Qualitative research (4 obras) · COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing (3 obras) · Focus group (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras) · Public health (3 obras)