Feminist Araştırmada İçeriden ve/veya Dışarıdan Olmak: Akademi ve Aktivizm Arasında Bir Köprü olarak Düşünümsellik

Abstract

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 criticizes the emphasis on neutrality for a scientific inquiry. Feminists have explored the power relations within the research and discussed the researchers' positionholding an insider and/or outsider positionalityin 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 dichotomy between academia and activism. 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.