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Dilek Isler Hayirli
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Dilek İşler Hayırlı is as an English Language Instructor at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University. Her MA thesis in Folklore explored toy and play museums in Turkey and was published in Turkish. In addition to supporting The AutoEthnographer, she is the editorial assistant for the journal Culture Academy. Her research areas are cultural heritage, toy and play museums, autoethnography, village ethnography, monographies and memory. She is currently conducting a village monography project with Aliağa Municipality in İzmir, Turkey. This will be the focus of her autoethnographic PhD dissertation. She is very happy to have been introduced to autoethnography by her supervisor, Prof. Dr. Serpil Aygün Cengiz.

Book Review: Patricia Leavy’s Writing and Publishing Qualitative Research

Dilek Isler Hayirli·
All ContentMoreNews, Interviews & ReviewsVolume 4, Issue 2 (2024)
·June 4, 2024·4 min read
Leavy’s Writing and Publishing Qualitative Research is a comprehensive guide that navigates the intricate landscape of qualitative research from the writing phase to publishing.
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Loss Series 1: Coping with Pet Bereavement and My Forever Love for My Beautiful Cat, ‘Timi’

Dilek Isler Hayirli·
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·June 1, 2024·7 min read
Coping with Pet Bereavement: My Forever Love for My Beautiful Cat 'Timi' is definitely not a farewell; it is only a love letter for my beloved cat who got lost on January 15, 2023, days after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit southern Türkiye. Like my country, I was also shaken deeply, and like the buildings, my heart almost collapsed.
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Zona, Mon Amour: A Micro-autoethnography of a Rare Disease

Serpil Aygün Cengiz and Dilek Isler Hayirli·
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·March 29, 2023·3 min read
Zona. I have always thought that names of diseases sound so beautiful. This is the story of a disease that lives with me.
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What Do Editors Look for When Reviewing Creative Autoethnography?

Marlen Harrison, Odessa Ogo, Shanita Mitchell, Dilek Isler Hayirli, Sandra L. Faulkner, Jessica Smartt Gullion, Jacob Meadows, Nadine Khair and Lina Fe Simoy·
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·January 12, 2023·7 min read
This video explores how editors have developed their approach to reviewing creative autoethnography and highlights strategies for contributors.
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What Is Autoethnography? How Can I Learn More?

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·December 12, 2022·14 min read
What is autoethnography? The AutoEthnographer's international team of editors offer definitions & suggested readings.
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Emotional Research: Performing Autoethnography at My Late Father’s Village

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·November 6, 2022·13 min read
"I had not been aware that this emotional research was also performing autoethnography, collecting memories from the field"
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Opening Folklore: How Can We Shift Social Sciences Via Autoethnography?

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·September 1, 2022·9 min read
"In Turkey, we must consider opening folklore & the social sciences, but this time more powerfully, staggeringly, and creatively."
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