@article{article_532325, title={Being an Insider and/or Outsider in Feminist Research: Reflexivity as a Bridge Between Academia and Activism}, journal={MANAS Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi}, volume={8}, pages={3728–3745}, year={2019}, DOI={10.33206/mjss.532325}, author={Dinçer, Pelin}, keywords={düşünümsellik,konumsallık,feminist araştırma,mülakat,içeriden/dışarıdan konumları}, abstract={<p style="font-family:’Times New Roman’;font-size:10.8px;background-color:rgb(249,249,249);"> <br /> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm .0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:medium;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;"> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:10pt;" xml:lang="en-us">Despite the ‘objectivity’ requisite of classic positivist approaches for the research to be considered as ‘scientific’, feminist research stresses the impact of researchers’ positionality within knowledge production and criticises the emphasis on neutrality for a scientific inquiry. Feminists have explored the power relations within the research and discussed the researchers’ position – holding an insider and/or outsider positionality – in terms of their complex relations of power. This examination requires elaboration on reflexivity, a critical stance in feminist research that stresses the situatedness of knowledge, which has a significant potential to eliminate the hierarchy within the research and to reconcile the  </span> <span style="font-size:10pt;">dichotomy between academia and activism </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:10pt;" xml:lang="en-us">. Thus, this study focuses on the dynamics within the feminist qualitative research, particularly interviewing, the notion of reflexivity, the discussions of researchers’ insider and/or outsider status and how feminist reflexivity can be used as a tool to form a bridge between academia/activism binary.  </span> </p> <p> </p>}, number={4}, publisher={Kırgızistan Türkiye Manas Üniversitesi}