Negotiating Insider and Outsider Identities in the Field: "Insider" in a Foreign Land; "Outsider" in One's Own Land

Ergun Özbolat A., Erdemir A.

FIELD METHODS, cilt.22, sa.1, ss.16-38, 2010 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 22 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2010
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1177/1525822x09349919
  • Dergi Adı: FIELD METHODS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.16-38
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: fieldwork, insiderness, outsiderness, researcher's identity, RESEARCHER, KNOWLEDGE, WOMEN
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The authors present a self-reflexive and comparative account of their fieldwork experiences in Azerbaijan and Turkey to examine insider and outsider identities of researchers in settings that are neither unfamiliar nor fully familiar. It is argued that the researcher is often suspended in a betwixt-and-between position in the transformative process. This position is not necessarily a transitional one that leads to either the inclusion or exclusion of researchers by informants. Rather, the insider-outsider relationship can be conceived as a dialectical one that is continuously informed by the differentiating perceptions that researchers and informants have of themselves and others.