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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe
Studies 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
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In the framework of the memory of the Kurdish community Dengbêjs' songs about the recent events
, 2016 Oral culture constitutes an aspect of social memory. Especially in the societies where written culture has not developed enough, cultural transmission comes true in an oral way.
Çiftçi, Tekin
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Analysis on blessing in Firdausi’s epopee and Kurdish epopee
پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2018 Whereas praise and blessing can be one of the subtitles of any story; its radiation in epic stories can be a combination of epical and lyric type in the view of literature types.
Mostafa Radmard, Mirjalaladdin Kazzazi
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Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland
Studies 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
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The Role of French Intellectuals in the Development of Kurdish Studies and Kurdish Enlightenment
The Renaissance and Reform movements that started in Italy in the 15th century affected society and culture from all sides and opened the way for a new era, also called The Enlightenment. The French Revolution in 1789, which was based on the ideas of the
Keskin, Necat +2 more
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Studies 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
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A Review on the Soviet Kurdish Novel (the Examples From Hewarî, Gundê Mêrxasan and Hopo)
Though seemingly unconnected conceptually, concepts concerning the land and the literature impact each other. From one point of view, the land determines the character of the literature.
Atlı, Hikmettin
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Contested Refugeeness in the Lavrio Kurdish Camp After the 2015 Reception Crisis in Greece
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the meanings of refugeeness among Kurdish residents of the self‐managed Lavrio refugee camp in Greece in the aftermath of the 2015 reception crisis. Focusing on how Kurdish camp residents make sense of their political identities and on how they distinguish themselves from those they call ‘non‐political refugees’, the ...
Filyra Vlastou‐Dimopoulou
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Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 3, August 2026.ABSTRACT In the Canadian community of official statistics producers and users, there has been an ongoing debate about the feasibility of using ‘visible minority’ categories to capture the experiences of Canada's racial minorities. Rarely, however, has this issue been examined from a factual angle; that is, the success of those categories in capturing ...
Hamid Akbary +2 more
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Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 4, August 2026.Abstract How immigrants respond to discrimination is a well‐studied topic in political psychology. However, less attention has been paid to whether the impact of discrimination on in‐group identification varies within minority groups and why. In Western Europe, Muslims experience significant discrimination and hostility based on their religious ...
Osman Suntay, Constantin Ruhe
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