Thinking with Emotions: An Autoethnography of Chronic Witnessing of Femicide in Turkey
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https://doi.org/10.47613/reflektif.2026.282Keywords:
femicide, autoethnography, feminist consciousnessAbstract
Considered a form of autobiography, autoethnography is the researcher's focus on their own experiences to open up for evaluation the social and cultural understanding that affects these experiences. This study is an autoethnographic narrative on pain, anger, and fear emotions and feminist consciousness formation, aiming to explain and analyze (graphy) chronic witnessing of femicides in Turkey through my personal lived experience (auto) in social and cultural (ethno) terms. This study aims to understand and explain my exposure to femicide news socially and culturally, spanning from my witnessing of Özgecan Aslan's murder at age fifteen to the period during my undergraduate years when I processed over 2000 femicide news stories as data. By narrating what was experienced in the process following witnessing femicide news through my story, I believe it can be part of a collective experience as women who witness this every day in Turkey. I address this witnessing within the framework of Sara Ahmed's (2014) analysis of emotions in her work The Cultural Politics of Emotion.
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