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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe

open access: yesStudies 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

Tracing the Uncharted African Diaspora in Southern Brazil: The Genetic Legacies of Resistance in Two <i>Quilombos</i> from Paraná. [PDF]

open access: yesGenes (Basel)
Joerin-Luque IA   +22 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland

open access: yesStudies 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

The Right to Exist as the Foundation of Equal Citizenship: An Ontological Inquiry of State‐Citizen Relations in Türkiye

open access: yesStudies 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

Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

open access: yesStudies 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

Does Living with a Wild River Improve Mental Health and Well‐Being? A Case Study of Blue‐Space Interaction and Stress Reduction in Southern Albania

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract The effect of natural blue space on subjective well‐being and self‐perceived stress among residents of Përmet, Albania (N = 203), with 80.3 per cent of whom reside within 1 km of the Vjosa River was examined. Three exposure indicators – visit frequency, proximity and time spent in the river surroundings – were focused on using the PYER ...
Elena Kokthi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evictability—A Relational Comparison: Fears, Manoeuvres and Regimes of Housing Insecurity in Rapidly Urbanising Cities

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This article develops the concept of ‘evictability’—the potential of eviction—as a lens for relational comparison of housing insecurity in cities undergoing rapid urbanisation. ‘Evictability’ has advantages over ‘displaceability’, we argue, because it does not meld residents' fears of coerced loss of home with presumptions about ruptured
JoAnn McGregor   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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