CoP I

Born and raised in Turkey, Arzu had the privilege to be admitted in a good university, and as a result she was able to learn English. While studying, Arzu suddenly noticed that the only thing she would read were American textbooks, even though all of the students were from Turkey. She then graduated from her university knowing no academic information about her so close Turkish environment. 

After applying for a PhD program, Arzu started living in the US. She would be confronted with "universal" theories of the human behaviour only to notice later that most of those studyings had little awareness of the rest of the world. Consequently, Arzu realized once again that she had no knowledge regarding the place and culture she originally came from. She then felt that this was her quest: to study things in the context that they had emerged, not just in the academic mainstream standards of knowledge, which is tipically the US.