DIGITAL HABITUS, HONOUR REGIMES AND MORPHOGENESIS: THE RESTRUCTURING OF INTERGENERATIONAL CLOTHING PRACTICES AMONG WOMEN IN ŞANLIURFA

Abstract

This article employs qualitative research to examine how clothing practices across generations among women are being restructured in Şanlıurfa, a traditional-conservative city in Turkiye. It brings together the theories of Foucault, Bourdieu, and Archer within a theoretical framework centred on the concept of “digital habitus”. The analysis treats the conflict between the traditional habitus, shaped by local honour/shame regimes and horizontal surveillance mechanisms, and the digital habitus associated with digital platforms and algorithmic personalisation as a mechanism that may activate Archer's morphogenetic cycle. The findings from in-depth interviews with women of different ages suggest that this conflict is associated with both the reproduction (morphostasis) and transformation (morphogenesis) of norms, alongside new hybrid subjectivities, forms of digital capital, and lines of inequality. By analysing the effects of digitalisation on gender practices through a mechanism-based approach, the article connects debates in digital sociology, gender studies, and Middle Eastern cultural studies.

Keywords

• Clothing
• Digital Habitus
• Intergenerational Conflict
• Morphogenesis
• Şanlıurfa

Supporting Institution

No funding was used to conduct the research.

DİJİTAL HABİTUS, ONUR REJİMLERİ VE MORFOGENEZ: ŞANLIURFA’DA KADINLARIN KUŞAKLARARASI GİYİM PRATİKLERİNİN YENİDEN YAPILANDIRILMASI

Abstract

Bu makale, Türkiye’nin geleneksel-muhafazakâr bir şehri olan Şanlıurfa’da kadınların kuşaklararası giyim pratiklerinin nasıl yeniden yapılandırıldığını nitel bir araştırma ile incelemektedir. Çalışma, Foucault, Bourdieu ve Archer’ın kuramlarını “dijital habitus” kavramı çevresinde bir araya getiren bir teorik çerçeve kullanmaktadır. Araştırma, yerel onur/utanç rejimleri ve yatay gözetim mekanizmaları tarafından şekillendirilen geleneksel habitus ile dijital platformlar ve algoritmik kişiselleştirme tarafından üretilen dijital habitus arasındaki çatışmayı, Archer’ın morfogenetik döngüsünü harekete geçirebilecek temel bir mekanizma olarak ele almaktadır. Farklı kuşaklardan kadınlarla yapılan derinlemesine görüşmelerden elde edilen bulgular, bu çatışmanın hem normların yeniden üretimi (morfostaz) hem de dönüşümüyle (morfogenez) ilişkili olduğuna ve yeni melez öznellikler, dijital sermaye biçimleri ve eşitsizlik hatları ürettiğine işaret etmektedir. Çalışma, dijitalleşmenin toplumsal cinsiyet pratikleri üzerindeki etkilerini mekanizma-temelli bir yaklaşımla analiz ederek dijital sosyoloji, toplumsal cinsiyet çalışmaları ve Ortadoğu kültürel çalışmaları arasındaki tartışmaları birbirine bağlamaktadır.

Keywords

• Giyim
• Dijital Habitus
• Kuşaklararası Çatışma
• Morfogenez
• Şanlıurfa

Supporting Institution

Araştırmanın yürütülmesinde herhangi bir fon kullanılmamıştır.

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