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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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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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From Kawa the Blacksmith to Ishtar the Goddess: Gender Constructions in Ideological-Political Discourses of the Kurdish Movement in post-1980 Turkey

European Journal of Turkish Studies, 2013
The Kurdish movement in post-1980 Turkey successfully mobilized Kurdish women. Themes related to gender equality have gained importance especially in late 1990s, when Kurdish women started to participate actively in the Kurdish movement.
Handan Çağlayan
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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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Nationalism and the Multinational State

American Journal of Islam and Society, 1992
We live in a world of nation-states where national cohesiveness constitutes the legitimizing ground for political unity. In such a world, multinational political units are considered to be peculiar entities whose existence is either taken as an exception
Louay Safi
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Little Fish in Big Ponds: The Pathways to Inclusion for Micro‐Minorities in Power‐Sharing Societies

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Emergent critique of consociations has focused on how micro‐minority ‘others’ are frequently excluded from the opportunities presented by power‐sharing systems, with dominant elites shutting them out. Therefore, a key question is: how do the political elites of micro‐minorities gain more meaningful inclusion by adopting or navigating the ...
Aleksandra Zdeb, Drew Mikhael
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In the Shadow of Secularism: Kurdish Ulema and Religious Nationalism from Sheikh Said to Hizbullah [PDF]

, 2016
Kurdish ulema, a religious class with a strong influence on Kurdish social life, have developed various forms of religious nationalism. This study offers a possible reading of the accounts of Kurdish ulema during the Turkish Republican period, as a ...
Küçüksari, Gülsüm
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Pastoralité in eastern Turkey

Revue de Géographie Alpine, 2014
In this article, we will confront the pastoral practices of the Kurdish populations in eastern Turkey, which is a very ancient culture, to the heritage process in order to try to establish a pastoralité, a concept emerging in the French academic circles.
Michaël Thevenin
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What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
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Between Kurdistan and Damascus: Kurdish Nationalism and Arab State Formation in Syria [PDF]

, 2021
Since the fall of the Ottoman empire, Kurdish nationalism has developed as an ideology within a regional state system where Kurds lack national representation or recognition.
McKeever, Alexander K
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