Acar Yasemin Gülsüm, Sandal-Önal Elif, Şen Ercan, Uysal Mete Sefa
University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.
Br J Soc Psychol. 2025 Jan;64(1):e12842. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12842.
Knowledge production on marginalized identities is frequently shaped by epistemic violence, which limits both the scope and methodologies of research. One example of this is the case of Kurdish identity in Turkey, where we find that methodological and epistemic problems are evident particularly in social psychological research. To summarize social psychological studies on Kurdishness, Kurdish identity and conflict in Turkey we've conducted a systematic review that includes a total of 63 studies on topics related to Kurdishness. We utilize qualitative content analysis (Schreier, 2012) to address: (1) whether samples in the studies in our review represent Kurds, (2) which topics the studies mostly focus on, (3) how Kurdish identity and Kurds as a group are conceptualized and (4) how the Kurdish issue is conceptualized. We discuss our findings in light of epistemic violence and methodological nationalism and identify the key gaps in the literature and offer a critical, inclusive understanding of the social psychological studies on Kurdish identity and state violence in Turkey.
关于边缘化身份的知识生产常常受到认知暴力的影响，这限制了研究的范围和方法。其中一个例子是土耳其库尔德身份的情况，我们发现方法和认知问题在社会心理学研究中尤为明显。为了总结关于库尔德人、库尔德身份认同以及土耳其境内冲突的社会心理学研究，我们进行了一项系统综述，共纳入了63项与库尔德相关主题的研究。我们运用定性内容分析法（施赖尔，2012年）来探讨：（1）我们综述中的研究样本是否代表库尔德人，（2）这些研究主要关注哪些主题，（3）库尔德身份和库尔德群体是如何被概念化的，以及（4）库尔德问题是如何被概念化的。我们根据认知暴力和方法论民族主义来讨论我们的研究结果，识别文献中的关键空白，并对土耳其库尔德身份认同和国家暴力的社会心理学研究提供批判性的、包容性的理解。
