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A Relational Perspective on Land in Armed Conflict: Analysing the Village Guard Mobilisation in Turkey

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 194-204, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the Turkish state's Village Guard system, revived in the 1980s as part of its counterinsurgency strategy against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). While often framed as a defensive militia, the Village Guards became central to the state's exceptional governance in Kurdistan, both facilitating military control and ...
Francis O'Connor, Adnan Çelik, Ayhan Işık, Joost Jongerden   +3 more
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Vernacular dominance in folk taxonomy: a case study of ethnospecies in medicinal plant trade in Tanzania [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: Medicinal plants are traded as products with vernacular names, but these folk taxonomies do not always correspond one-to-one with scientific plant names.
Hugo J de Boer, Joseph Otieno, Michael Nahashon, Sarina Veldman, Siri Abihudi, Tinde van Andel   +5 more
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Hikayeta Ferx û Stî û Berawirdiya Wê bi Çend Vegêranên Olî re

Nubihar Akademi
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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The Influence of Globalization on Distracting Traditional Aesthetic Values in Old Town of Erbil [PDF]

, 2017
Aesthetics as a discipline was originally part of philosophy and cosmology, primarily it was used to create a holistic picture of the world. Throughout history, subject and tasks of aesthetics as a discipline have been changing in different historical ...
Hariry, Z. (Zhino)
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Syrian refugees and cultural intimacy in Istanbul : "I feel safe here!" [PDF]

, 2016
This paper derives from the findings of a recent qualitative and quantitative study conducted by the Support to Life Association among Syrian refugees in Istanbul to make their vulnerability assessment with a particular focus on their strong attachment ...
KAYA, Ayhan
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Enduring Crises of the Nation‐State: How Spatial Imaginations Reshape Identity and Dis/Unity

Geography Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article reframes the contemporary “crisis” of the nation‐state not as a simple erosion of sovereignty but as a problem of spatial misalignment: adaptive states remain strategically embedded in dense transnational regimes, yet domestic legitimacy falters when unitary national imaginaries confront heterogeneous, multi‐sited social realities.
Erdem Bekaroğlu, Suat Yazan
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial of Special Issue of National Identities: Alevism as an ethno-religious identity: Contested boundaries [PDF]

, 2018
No abstract for editorial but this is the opening paragraph: This special issue on Alevism and trans/national Alevi identity critically engages with the relationship between religion, ethnicity and national identity. The core issues are as follows: • how
Akdemir A., Atay T., Babinger F., Baha Said Bey, Baha Said Bey, Baha Said Bey, Birge J. K., Bölükbaşı Rıza Tevfik., Celia Jenkins, Eroz M., Faroqhi S., Faroqhi S., Graeber D., Griffiths D. J., Gul Z., Hasluck F. W., Hickman M. J., Kaleli L., Karakas C., Köprülü M. F., Köprülü M. F., Köprülü M. F., Mélikoff I., Ocak A. Y., Ocak A. Y., Ocak A. Y., Ocak A. Y., Ocak A. Y., Ocak A. Y., Okan M., Ollson T. E., Suavi Aydın, Umit Cetin, Uzum I., Yavuz H.   +34 more
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Outsmarting sanctions

American Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 34-44, February 2026.
Abstract In 2012 the UN Security Council and the European Union bolstered US economic sanctions on Iran, disembedding the country's economy from financial markets. Since then, the sanctions have radically devalued Iran's currency, leading Iranians to seek a viable standard of value elsewhere. They have done so through ghachagh (fugitive) configurations
Emrah Yıldız
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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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Pedagogy of Whole Languaging Hearts: Fostering Relational Ways of (Re)Connecting to the Land With Multilingual Refugee Children

Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 22-39, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Colonial monolingual norms are a present oppressive force within schooling spaces, with a direct assimilative target on the linguistic practices of historically marginalized peoples, histories, and knowledge systems. For racially minoritized multilingual refugee learners, the space of in‐school science learning can be experienced as an ...
Sophia Thraya, Miwa A. Takeuchi, Jrène Rahm   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source