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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 Role of News in Alevi Television Channels: Approaches to Addressing Both General and Alevi Audiences

Medya ve Din Araştırmaları Dergisi
This article examines the function of news media on Alevi television channels. The increased visibility of faith-based identity movements in the public sphere during the 1990s led to the study of these communities in media research.
Nazlı Özkan
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Les jeunes alévis du quartier de Gazi (Istanbul) et les associations de hemşehri : identifications croisées

European Journal of Turkish Studies, 2015
This article aims to explore the impact of the hemşehri identity on the second generation of Alevi youth living in Gazi district of Istanbul. It advances the following hypothesis: the second generation of gecekondu (shanty town) inhabitants consider the ...
Hakan Yücel
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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 ...
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Understanding Current Alevism: A Field Research in Ankara, Turkey

Espergesia, 2022
Anthropology is a discipline that attempts to understand the human condition epistemologically. Concepts such as ethnicity or identity keep framing these studies. Alevism is one of those which is called ethnoreligious.
Hülya Doğan Elibüyük
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Exit and voice revisited: the challenge of migrant media [PDF]

, 2008
This paper discusses the implications of transnational media production and diasporic networks for the cultural politics of migrant minorities. How are fields of cultural politics transformed if Hirschmann’s famous options ‘exit’ and ‘voice’ are no ...
Kosnick, Kira
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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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Arabic dialects in Turkey — towards a comparative typology [PDF]

, 2010
In a workshop devoted to Turkish dialects it is my pleasure to present a short survey of the dialectology of a language which is also spoken on the territory of Turkey and offers considerable dialect variation, namely ...
Jastrow, Otto
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TURKISH ALEVISM: RELIGIOUS IDENTIFICATION

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2013
Alevis are forming a large religious community in Turkey. According to different estimations they compose 10 up to 20% of the country’s population. Their system of religious belief is called Alevism which is one of the heterodox Muslim sects.
D. V. Zhigulskaya
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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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