When the Boundaries are Blurred

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Ghorashi, Halleh

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Abstract	This article focuses on the ways that the author’s somewhat in-between position as both an outsider/researcher and an insider/ex-political Iranian activist now in exile has contributed to the process of research on Iranian women exiles in the Netherlands and the United States. Feminist attention on life stories as a method, and feminist anthropologists’ attention to particularity, involvement and reflexivity give the author the space, and inspire her, to explore the issue of positioning. This makes it possible for her to engage with the issues of home, identity and belonging, not only as a scholar but also as a woman in exile. In this way, the reflexivity resulting from this involvement enables her to reevaluate her own identity, sense of belonging, and life in exile, next to rethinking these essential themes within the social sciences on the theoretical level. The blurred boundary of the self and the other in her research has its moments of complication, but in the end, these complicated moments seem to be not only necessary but rewarding, in many ways.
Freie Schlagwörter	belonging; exile; feminist anthropology; home; identity; Iranian women; life stories; positioning;
Sprache Dokument	Englisch
Publikationsjahr	2005
Seitenangabe	S. 363-375
Zeitschriftentitel	European Journal of Women's Studies, 12 (2005) 3
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350506805054275
Status	Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz	PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)