Introduction: Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Global South
Conducting field research in the Global South comes with its own challenges in various stages: pre-field, during fieldwork, and post-fieldwork. […]
Sertaç Sehlikoglu
Dr. Sertaç Sehlikoglu is an Associate Professor at the University College London’s Institute for Global Prosperity. Sehlikoglu’s work often focuses on intangible aspects of human subjectivity that enable humans to change and transform social life. She has published ethnography-based research on intangible aspects, such as intimacy, desire, agency, and political imaginaries and conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Turkey, Lebanon, Bosnia-Herzegovina, North Macedonia, and Kosovo. She co-edited several special issues on themes related to intimacy, sexuality, Islam, and critique, in journals, including the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (2015), the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (2016), Society for Cultural Anthropology (2014), Contemporary Islam (2024), and History and Anthropology (forthcoming), and International Journal of Heritage Studies (forthcoming); and a volume titled The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity: Cross-Cultural Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality (Lexington, 2020). Sehlikoglu is also the editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies’ Reviews Section and the Associate Editor of Contemporary Islam.