Samer SharaniSabancı University · Department of Arts and Social Science
Samer Sharani
Master of Arts
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Introduction
Home return, Ontological Security, Identity, Agonism, Civil War
Publications
Publications (5)
Emotions and ontological security open up one of the latest avenues in International Relations (IR). An increasing number of interdisciplinary approaches have been engaging in emotions and ontological security, for example, foreign policy analysis. However, academic research is scarce concerning the triangulation of emotions, foreign policy, and in...
Civil war can change the narratives of a collective Self and damage some of its ontological security conditions, such as continuity, self-esteem, and consistency. Using a qualitative analysis of the Facebook pages visited widely by the residents of Salamieh City in Syria (a stronghold for Ismailis), this study shows how narratives of a collective S...
We are submitting a workshop proposal to IMISCOE annual conference (2-5 July 2024). We welcome contributions from researchers who are interested in critical refugee studies, solutions to the refugee problem, or the concept of place. Please see the attached file.
Syrian refugees in Turkey have three alternatives: staying in Turkey, moving
to Europe, or returning home. This study sought to probe into how Syrian
refugees accomplish their intentions about these three alternatives.
By using a theory-building method, synthesizing different theoretical
frameworks on home return—as a wide theme—this study suggests...
Questions
Question (1)
Epistemologically, scientific realism is (say, mainly) based on the idea that we generate theoretical entities to understand, describe, and discover a structure in the reality; these entities are unobservable, yet they are real, they exist independently from our research and our mind. In other words, these entities are not merely instruments to discover reality; they are real (see Alexander Wendt, for example among others). However, for critical realism (e.g., Roy Bhaskar) this point is not clear for me: Do theoretical entities we generate to understand the "structured reality" have their ontological-real existence independently from our mind? are they real, not merely instruments to understand reality?
thanks in advance
