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Victimhood claims in German political manifestos

Political Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Political campaigns often work with victimhood claims—stories construed around an (alleged) injustice that needs to be redressed or retaliated against. Notably, scholars have argued that victimhood claims have become more important in societal discourses over the last 20 years.
Marlene Voit, Lucas John Emmanuel Köhler, Stefan Matern, Karsten Fischer, Mario Gollwitzer   +4 more
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Examining prejudice reduction through solidarity and togetherness experiences among Gezi Park activists in Turkey [PDF]

, 2016
Prejudice reduction research has focused on reducing negative regard as a means to improve relations between various groups (e.g., religious, ethnic, political).
Blee, Craig, Dixon, Dixon, Dovidio, Drury, Drury, Eagly, Greenaway, Landis, Pettigrew, Reicher, Stott, van Zomeren   +13 more
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Decolonial Entangled Ethnographic Research: Transformative Collaborations With the UK Alevi Community Over the Last 15 Years

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The vibrant British Alevi community has settled in London and other parts of the UK since the late 1980s, constituting the largest population of Kurdish Alevis outside of Turkey. Their religion is Alevism, but they are often mistakenly identified as Turkish and Muslim, contributing to their invisibility in this country.
Umit Cetin, Celia Jenkins
wiley   +1 more source

Conspiracy theory as spatial practice: the case of the Sivas arson attack, Turkey [PDF]

, 2017
This article discusses the relationship between conspiratorial thinking and physical space by focusing on the ways conspiracy theories regarding political violence shape and are shaped by the environments in which it is commemorated.
Akbulut AK, Aksoy OE, Asimovic-Akyol D, Aytekin E, Başkaya D, Comaroff J, Coşkun Z, Das V, Dean J, Delaney C, Deliktaş A, Doğan S, Eral S, Eray Çaylı, Fenster M, Fortun K, Göçek FM, Günbulut Ş, Hunt J, Kaçmaz M, Kırlı C, Linenthal ET, Marcus GE, Ministry of State for Religious Affairs, Olick JK, Rigney A, Sancar M, Stevens Q, Stewart K, Taşpınar Ö, Taştekin F, Tüleylioğlu O, Wagner-Pacifici R, Wilpert C, Yalçınkaya H, Young JE, Çamuroğlu R, Çaylı E, Öztürk M, Ünsal F, Ünsal F   +40 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

“Being an Alevi in UK”: Construction of the Alevi Identity in Diaspora

Journal of Turkish Studies, 2023
Türkiye’deki siyasal ve kültürel gelişmelere bakıldığında, son yıllarda Alevilik ve Aleviler konusunun giderek artan bir öneme sahip olduğu tespit edilebilir. Bunun nedeni, Alevilerin kendi kültür ve inançlarına yönelik taleplerini artık (özellikle yurtdışında) daha yüksek sesle ifade etmelerinden kaynaklanmaktadır.
openaire   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source