As always, huge thanks to participants, research assistants, past collaborators, reviewers, and editors.
I've also tried to do some more in-depth discussion of Azerbaijani family structure and honor culture.
I've also tried to tap into understanding the cost-benefit analysis of political expression in an more challenging political context and how family plays into this.
There has been some recent really cool work on families and activism in Hong Kong that I enjoyed engaging with. I hope those folks continue developing these ideas because it has been some of the most fruitful for me to compare my own data with.
I engage with theorizing on relational repression and stigma. Specifically, I consider the role of courtesy stigma (stigma by association) in shaping activists’ decisions - usually to conceal their political identities from their families.
This study focuses on FAMILY relationships. Previous work that I've done on this, with others, has focused on friends.
Here's a link to an auto-generated podcast on the article. It wasn't perfect (and it was embasssingly flattering to me) but if you don't want to read the entire article, this summarizes it well. drive.google.com/file/d/1MpMb...
New pub: Managing the visibility of dissent: Stigma, social media, and family relationships among Azerbaijani activists journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This study examines the strategies young Azerbaijani activists use to manage the visibility of their stigmatized political identities, particularly in relation ...
In not-at-all-shocking news - a study found that AI can't do peer review. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
ChatGPT is an AI platform whose relevance in the peer review of scientific articles is steadily growing. Nonetheless, it has sparked debates over its …