Ethnography under Authoritarianism
Notes from Medical Anthropological Fieldwork
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8967742 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Seda Saluk (0000-0002-9843-2041, University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 134-138 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743824000217 |
| OpenAlex | W4392813365 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
What is perceived today as “living in an unknown moment” with global pandemics and ecological disasters has long become the “new normal” that structures everyday life at the margins of Europe and the Middle East, particularly in places with rising authoritarian regimes. As scholars working in and on Turkey, for instance, we have witnessed or experienced firsthand several moments of crisis over the recent years. We have seen the collapse of peace negotiations between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Worker's Party (Partiya Karkeren Kurdistane; PKK) in 2015 and the resulting surge in state violence in Turkey's Kurdistan, the 2016 coup attempt against the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi; AKP) government by the Gülen movement, and the long-standing suppression, criminalization, and incarceration of dissent affecting, among others, students, politicians, journalists, and academics. These divergent yet interlinked moments of crisis have reshaped and often complicated, if not completely stopped, our research as ethnographers of Turkey. These moments of crisis have also pushed us to develop creative strategies and analytics to continue our fieldwork and provided opportunities to hone our research questions and methodologies in more nuanced ways
Authoritarianism · Democracy · Ethnography · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Global Security and Public Health · History · Law · Race, Genetics, and Society · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
The AKP-Era Higher Education Strategies for Establishing Hegemony over Turkish Universities
Industrialization and Academy in Contemporary Turkey
Displaced Scholars as a Contribution to Academic Diversity
Democratic Backsliding and Universities
What Gets Inside
Datafied Pregnancies
Medical Anthropology in an Era of Authoritarianism
Researchers' Vulnerability
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |