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The Ethnic Groups Military Recruitment Data
ABSTRACT Military conscription affects how countries expand political rights and fight wars, as well as their citizens' view of the state and socioeconomic outcomes. Until recently, conscription was studied in a simplified fashion, missing cases where it only applies to specific societal groups. We introduce the Ethnic Military Recruitment (EGMR) data,
Markéta Odlová, Marius Mehrl
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Representations of Mythological Rituals and Actions in Kurdish Oral Narratives
Kurdish folk poems, known as Kurdish verses, constitute the oldest part of Kurdish literature. Within these works, rich in themes of love and epic tales, are depictions of important mythological elements that have maintained their ancient essence.
Shahnaz Tahmasbi
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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe
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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ABSTRACT Rising numbers of refugees, prolonged displacement and reduced funding have led to challenges in terms of how to address their healthcare needs, with different approaches taken, ranging from parallel mechanisms to arrangements that are integrated (to different extents) within the national health system. Increasingly, global frameworks call for
Maria Paola Bertone +13 more
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Racialized Labor Intermediation: Managing the “Threat” of Kurdish Workers on Turkish Farms
ABSTRACT Farm labor intermediaries in Turkey have been at the heart of maintaining a precarious and low‐wage migrant labor force for capitalist agriculture since the 19th century. This labor force has been predominantly comprised of Kurds, a people racialized as “savage,” “racially impure,” and “traitors of the Turkish nation” since the beginning of ...
Deniz Duruiz
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Culture encompasses various topics, especially when we examine a story with multiple narrators from a cultural perspective. This is because the geographical position and environmental culture of the narrator, as well as the cultural background of the ...
Nasrin Rokash +2 more
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Social movements and the synecdoche problem
Abstract Social movements are central to our contemporary understanding of social change. Accordingly, we should want to be able to say what it is that makes social movements special; that is, to say what it is that movements in their entirety have that random samples of people and organizations within the movement do not have.
Megan Hyska
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Mother tongue instruction as a sticky object: The making of a register of denunciation
Abstract This article examines the making of a political register to denounce mother tongue instruction (MTI) in Sweden. Nationally mandated since 1977, MTI is a state‐sponsored, curriculum‐stipulated subject for minority pupils of over 187 languages other than Swedish.
Scarlett Mannish, Linus Salö
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Hikayeta Ferx û Stî û Berawirdiya Wê bi Çend Vegêranên Olî re
Hikayetên gelêrî beşek ji cureyên vegêranê yê edebiyata gelêrî ne ku heta niha li ser wan kêm xebat hatine kirin. Wekî cure hikayetên gelêrî vegêranên dirêj in û bi piranî bo mezinan, li dîwan û odeyan tên vegêran.
Necat Keskin, Yahya Yavuz
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National Colonialism: Nation‐State, Colonialism and Colonisation of Kurdistan
ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of ‘national colonialism’ to capture colonial relations in the nation‐state form. It does so through a critical appraisal of the concept of ‘internal colonialism’, which largely fails to explain the links between nationalism and colonial relations.
Behnam Amini
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