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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The vibrant British Alevi community has settled in London and other parts of the UK since the late 1980s, constituting the largest population of Kurdish Alevis outside of Turkey. Their religion is Alevism, but they are often mistakenly identified as Turkish and Muslim, contributing to their invisibility in this country.
Umit Cetin, Celia Jenkins
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POLITICAL AND NATIONAL RESISTANCE IN THE KURDISH NOVELS WRITTEN IN THE MOUNTAINS (1976–1991)
گۆڤارا زانستێن مرۆڤایەتی یا زانكۆیا زاخۆKurdish novels that written in the mountains, particularly those published during the period of the Gulan Revolution (1976–1991), constitutes a critical narrative space wherein the socio-political realities of Kurdish society are represented and ...
Amina Saeed, Fouad Rashid
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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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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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Making Kurdish Public(s): Language Politics and Practice in Turkey [PDF]
, 2016 This dissertation tracks what I term the public dispensability of language: the apportioning of particular language varieties to contexts deemed public by their users, and the dialectical, productive potential for language forms to assemble and shape ...
Jamison, Kelda
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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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Analyzing teachers’ perception for teaching Kurdish language
, 2017 The aim of this research is to analyze teachers? perception for teaching Kurdish language in terms of different variances. This studying is made in general survey model.
Ölmez, Azize Koksun
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration
Studies 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
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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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Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciencesئەڤ ڤەکۆلینە ب ناڤونیشانێت (كاريگهريا ئاستێ ڕهوشهنبيريێ دایک و بابان د وهرارا پهيڤێن زمانيدا ل دهڤ بچویکان ل دویڤ (هارت و ڕیزلی) و مە ڤیایە د ئەڤێ ڤەکۆلینێدا دیاربکەین ڕۆلێ دایک و بابان و ب تایبەتی ئەڤێن ئاستەکێ ڕەوشەنبیری یێ بلند و ناڤنجی د ...
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