Collaboration gone awry: The formation of women’s shelters as public institutions in Turkey

Ekal, Berna

doi:10.1080/13629395.2017.1398904

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“…Besides, their ongoing efforts to search for reliable supports were identified as crucial aspects of women's processes of change. As demonstrated by previous research in Turkey (Ekal, 2017), the narratives revealed how it was difficult and demanding for women to obtain the help that they needed, but how women were resourceful in fighting against these barriers.…”

Section: Decision-making and Safety In A Disempowering Contextmentioning

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Seeking safety from male partner violence in Turkey: Toward a context-informed perspective on women's decisions and actions

Yalcinoz-Ucan

2022

Feminism & Psychology

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Women's stay/leave decision-making in violent relationships has become a subject of investigation in psychology over the last few decades. Despite making significant contributions to the understanding of how women's psychological processes shape their responses to violence, much of this research has lacked a contextualized approach. The present study aimed to provide a feminist context-informed examination of women's decision-making and safety-seeking processes. Twelve women who had experiences of violence in their marital relationships were interviewed individually. The study was carried out in Istanbul, Turkey, and all participants were socioeconomically disadvantaged women. A constructivist grounded theory approach was used for the data analysis. The results indicated that women's helplessness, beyond being a psychological construct, was a reality shaped by the conditions of marginalization in their lives. More than being related to the experience of psychological trauma, the women's narratives revealed the disempowering barriers associated with the lack of socioeconomic and institutional resources. Under these circumstances, regardless of their decisions to stay or leave, the women underlined their ongoing strategic efforts to ensure their safety, as mainly strengthened by the relational support available to them.

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Section: Decision-making and Safety In A Disempowering Contextmentioning

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Seeking safety from male partner violence in Turkey: Toward a context-informed perspective on women's decisions and actions

Yalcinoz-Ucan

2022

Feminism & Psychology

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“…Only the think tanks that have close links to the ruling government are invited to participate in policy processes (European Commission, 2020: 14). 3 The system remains effectively closed to actors that are "critical" of government policies (Doyle, 2017;Ekal, 2019;Orhan, 2018: 143). 4…”

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“…These think tanks have been seen as "partisan think tanks"(Orhan, 2018: 2 based on Yıldız, 2013.4 Policies on environmental policies and gender, for example, are two areas widely discussed in the literature, and with regard to which the system is closed to actors who are critical of government policies(Doyle, 2017;Ekal, 2019;Orhan, 2018).14 CHANGING POLICY ADVISORY DYNAMICS IN THE 2000S: THE ADVISORY……”

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Changing Policy Advisory Dynamics in the 2000s: The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Turkey

Bakır

Bölükbaşi

2022

The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Europe

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This chapter maps the changing features of the policy advisory system in Turkey and explores the policy advisory roles of Turkish political scientists in the 2000s. It situates Turkey’s statist policy advisory system in an environment of increasing centralization of executive power in a hybrid regime. In this system, government actors dictate the terms of engagement for key policy actors. They do so against the background of externalization, politicization, privatization, Europeanization and societalization of advice. In addition to case study material, the chapter relies on the ProSEPS survey. According to the survey findings, the typical political scientist in Turkey is a male opinionator, who gives generally informal face-to-face advice to mostly civil society organizations, think tanks and civil servants. This opinionator is an expert in international relations, comparative politics and political theory. Political scientists in Turkey’s advisory system do not differ markedly from their European colleagues in terms of their demographic characteristics, educational attainment, employment status, specialization subfields, channels they use and levels of governance they provide advice at. The chapter concludes by calling for further research on the advisory roles of political scientists in this hybrid regime.

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“…For example, while the government has collaborative relationship with Islamic women's organizations, it excludes a variety of feminist women's organizations ( Doyle, 2017 ). A case in point is the government's effectively hijacking the agenda item on women's shelters (which had helped bring the issue of violence against women to the government's agenda, and therefore, which would potentially politicize the issue) originally set by feminist organizations ( Ekal, 2017 ). A similar picture emerges with respect to environmentalist organizations, where the government disregards court orders to stop the execution of mining or other energy investments due to environmental concerns ( Özen andÖzen, 2009 , 2010 ;Kadirbeyoglu, 2005 ).…”

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Policy Styles and Policy-Making

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Collaboration gone awry: The formation of women’s shelters as public institutions in Turkey

Cited by 6 publications

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Seeking safety from male partner violence in Turkey: Toward a context-informed perspective on women's decisions and actions

Seeking safety from male partner violence in Turkey: Toward a context-informed perspective on women's decisions and actions

Changing Policy Advisory Dynamics in the 2000s: The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Turkey

Policy Styles and Policy-Making

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