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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
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The Right to Exist as the Foundation of Equal Citizenship: An Ontological Inquiry of State‐Citizen Relations in Türkiye

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite enduring decades of advocacy, Alevi communities in Türkiye find themselves in a constant state of anticipation for acknowledgment from the Turkish state. Previous studies have long documented the marginalized status of Alevis within Turkish society and their ongoing struggle for recognition; however, they have overwhelmingly framed the
Aslı Gücin
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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Alevî Geleneğe Mensup Ocaklarda Kurban Telakkileri

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Bu çalışmada, Kurban ile ilgili âyet-i kerimeler ve İslam dünyasında yaygın anlayışlar esas alınarak Alevî nitelemeli ocaklarda var olan kurban telakkileri incelenmektedir.
Mesude Nur Temiz, Cenksu Üçer
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Religious Boundaries through Emotions: The Representation of Emotions and Their Group-Forming Function in Alevi Poetry

Religions, 2023
Although emotions occupy an important place in Alevism, their representation in Alevi history and the present has not yet been sufficiently researched. This study addresses this desideratum and discusses the representation and codification of emotions on
Cem Kara
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How education shapes divergent identity responses to discrimination: Experimental and observational evidence from Muslim immigrants in Germany

Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract How immigrants respond to discrimination is a well‐studied topic in political psychology. However, less attention has been paid to whether the impact of discrimination on in‐group identification varies within minority groups and why. In Western Europe, Muslims experience significant discrimination and hostility based on their religious ...
Osman Suntay, Constantin Ruhe
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Tracing Cultural Memory between Poems: Perspectivization and its Intertextual Application in Alevi Poetry

European Journal of Turkish Studies
The present article examines the rhetorical qualities of the so-called deyiş in relation to tradition formation and identity building within Alevism using a cultural memory studies approach. The focus of the study is on forms of poetic perspectivization,
Hasret Tıraz
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Women, Space, Resistance: Kurdish Refugee‐Migrants' Narratives From Lavrio and Skaramagas Camps in Greece

Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 5, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Refugee camps have long been theorized as spaces of exception, where sovereign power reduces displaced people to what Agamben terms ‘bare life’. While this frame captures the violence of camp governance, it depicts refugee‐migrants as passive and says little about how camp space is inhabited, contested and remade in everyday life, least of all
Orkide Izci
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Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 272-283, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
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