Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social Categories and Military Service in a Secular State

印第安纳大学博士生艾努尔·奥努尔将在纳齐夫·沙赫拉尼博士和萨拉·弗里德曼博士的指导下，就性别平等目标、世俗主义和世俗伊斯兰国服兵役之间的关系进行研究。这位研究人员将专注于在土耳其服役或属于军人家庭的女性。土耳其是这项研究的合适地点，因为土耳其女性似乎有意识地通过服兵役来改变传统角色。研究人员的重点研究问题是：如何以及为什么特别动员妇女参军？不同的招聘话语和其他战略是否会对妇女的生活和整个社会产生不同的后果？女性如何调和参军与个人目标？数据将通过档案研究、参与者观察和对军人男女、与军队有家庭联系的女性和平民男性的大样本(N=192)的访谈来收集。这项研究很重要，因为它将包括第一次在一个以穆斯林为主的国家对性别认同和服兵役之间的关系进行系统的民族志调查。这项研究的发现也将有助于阐明在其他情况下女性服兵役的性别层面，并将有助于对国家和个人意识形态之间的关系进行理论化。资助这项研究还支持研究生的教育。

Indiana University doctoral candidate Aynur Onur, supervised by Dr. Nazif Shahrani and Dr. Sara Friedman, will conduct research on the relationship between gender equity goals, secularism, and military service in a secular Islamic state. The researcher will focus on women who serve in the military or who are part of military families in Turkey. Turkey is an appropriate site for the research because Turkish women appear to consciously seek military service to transform traditional roles. The researcher's focal research questions are: How and why are women in particular mobilized to undertake military service? Do different recruitment discourses and other strategies have different consequences for women's lives and for the larger society? How do women reconcile military participation with personal goals? Data will be collected through archival research, participant observation, and interviews with a large sample (N = 192) of military women and men, women with family ties to the military, and civilian women and men.The research is important because it will comprise the first systematic ethnographic investigation of the relationship between gender identity and military service in a predominantly Muslim nation. Findings from the research will help illuminate the gendered dimensions of women's military service in other contexts, as well, and will contribute to theorizing the relationships between state and personal ideologies. Funding this research also supports the education of a graduate student.