Defining the Nation: Kurdish Historiography in Turkey in the 1990s [PDF]
, 2001 This article examines Kurdish historiography in Turkey in the 1990s. It centres on the question how the national community is historicised via central myths, especially for the pre-Islamic periods.
Hirschler, Konrad
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Cosmopolitanism and the relevance of ‘zombie concepts’: the case of anomic suicide amongst Alevi Kurd youth [PDF]
, 2017 Against Beck’s claims that conventional sociological concepts and categories are zombie categories, this paper argues that Durkheim’s theoretical framework in which suicide is a symptom of an anomic state of society can help us understand the diversity ...
Alexander +62 more
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Associations de pays et production de locality : la « campagne Munzur » contre les barrages
European Journal of Turkish Studies, 2015 Taking the example of migrants coming from the Kurdish Alevi province of Tunceli (Eastern Turkey), this contribution analyses the phenomenon of hemşehri associations by looking at their ability to produce locality [Appadurai].
Marie Le Ray
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Characteristics of modern Islamic civilization in Alevi discourse (Meta-analysis study and theme analysis Styles Editing) [PDF]
Religion & CommunicationPaying attention to the dimensions and characteristics of civilizations in different schools has created a factor in the direction of wise modeling and expanding the horizon of thinking, as well as promoting the selection of the best and most lasting ...
Hassan Bashir, Malihe Abedini
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Pir Sultan Abdal : Encounters with persona in Alevi lyric song [PDF]
, 2011 In his 1997 Nobel Prize lecture, Contra jogulatores obliquentes, Italian dramatist Dario Fo makes an oblique reference to a famous medieval Ottoman "jester."1 The "jester" is not mentioned by name but rather in the context of the murder of 35 artists and
Koerbin, Paul
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The Saz as a Mode of Understanding Alevism
Voices, 2017 An attempt to give insight into who Alevis are and what Alevism is, only further demonstrates the complexities that arise in doing so. However, this ambiguity is essential to discuss in terms of what this paper seeks to answer and that is: How can we ...
Iris Sibel Muradoglu
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Durkheim, ethnography and suicide: researching young male suicide in the transnational London Alevi-Kurdish community [PDF]
, 2016 This study of the unusually high incidence of young male suicides in the transnational Alevi-Kurdish community in London, demonstrates the benefits of combining a Durkheimian structural approach with a qualitatively driven ethnographic methodology ...
Cetin, U., Cetin, U.
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Diyanet’s Role in Building the ’Yeni (New) Milli’ in the AKP Era
European Journal of Turkish Studies, 2019 This study argues that Diyanet has become one of the most important political symbols and representatives of the “yeni milli” (new national) – or as named by AKP members, “yerli ve milli” (homegrown and national) – values and neoliberal economic policies
Nil Mutluer
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Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThis paper explores how Kurdish Alevi women use their identity markers and the public discourse surrounding them to claim space for freedom, respect (both from others and themselves), and social recognition as sources of empowerment.
Hayal Hanoğlu +2 more
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Le dede moderne : évolution des paramètres de l’autorité religieuse de l’alévisme dans la Turquie contemporaine [PDF]
, 2006 L’article décrit, en la replaçant dans son contexte, l’évolution moderne du leadership et de la structure d’autorité dans l’alévisme turc. Au siècle dernier, à la faveur des processus d’urbanisation et de sécularisation, l’alévisme turc a subi de ...
Dressler, Markus
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