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Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 1093-1111, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Between 1948 and 1956, 36,302 Jews migrated from Turkey to Israel, forming the largest Turkish diaspora hub at that time. Drawing on the nine newspapers published by Turkish Jews in Israel in their vernacular, Ladino (Judeo‐Spanish), this article sheds light on the complex nature of the migrants' transnational affinity to the Turkish Republic ...
Aviad Moreno, Tamir Karkason
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The Kurdish Janus: The intersocietal construction of nations
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 718-733, April 2023., 2023 Abstract Existing accounts of Kurdish nationalism can be mapped onto the main theories of nationalism, that is, primordialism, ethnosymbolism and modernism. These theories, however, suffer, respectively, from essentialism, circularity and aporia, manifest in their common inability to digest the Janus‐like character of nations, that is, their display of
Kamran Matin, Jahangir Mahmoudi
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Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 295-310, January 2023., 2023 Abstract This article contributes to the growing scholarship on minority politics in the Middle East by arguing that if minorities are socially or politically constructed then the meaning and implications of minority terminology requires greater historical contextualisation.
Elizabeth Monier
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Property as sovereignty in micro: the state/property nexus and the Cyprus Problem
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 769-787, September 2022., 2022 Abstract This article shows that landed property can be an exercise of state sovereignty in micro. I argue that property tightly relates to statehood and that the concept of ‘community’ offers us a lens with which to investigate that relation. Property's ‘communal’ character in Cyprus often transcends individual rights to ownership. A house belongs not
Theodoros Rakopoulos
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Worlding on the Hudson: Frederic Church and Global Histories of Art
Art History, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 518-544, June 2022., 2022 The ‘Persian’ interior of the American landscape painter Frederic Church is a place crowded with paintings, objects and architectural ornament orchestrated as an installation that the artist both accrued and designed over a thirty‐year period. This regional orientalism, with its cosmopolitan claims and internationally networked cultural politics, is ...
Mary Roberts
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Radical Secularism and Worldview Dilemmas in Countering Sectarianism in Lebanon
Negotiation Journal, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 477-500, Summer 2022., 2022 Through an analysis of Lebanon, this article investigates the secularism dilemma, namely, that secularism often leads to the politicization of religion and a high risk of conflict. Although this is the case in Lebanon, Lebanese political activists and youth movements advocate for secularism as the only alternative to the present consociational ...
Lars Erslev Andersen
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Mooring Mobilities, Fixing Flows: Towards a Global Urban History of Port Cities in the Age of Steam
Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 350-374, June 2021., 2021 Abstract This article critically surveys the current historiography of port cities, which have recently attracted a lot of interest, particularly from global historians of the 19th and early 20th century. The article contextualizes this body of scholarship within larger recent and older trends in the discipline.
Lasse Heerten
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İtaat, İtikat ve Askerlik Üçgeninde Osmanlı’da Devlet-Yezidi İlişkileri
Hitit İlahiyat Dergisi, 2021 State-Yazidi Relationships in the Ottoman Empire Regarding Obedience, Belief and Military Abstract Yazidis or Ezidis are a Kurdish speaking religion group, living in the Sheyhan and Sinjar region around Mosul as well as rural areas of Diyarbakır, Urfa ...
Ekrem Akman
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Women's bodies, demography, and public health: abortion policy and perspectives in the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century [PDF]
, 2008 This article discusses the anti-abortion policy of the Ottoman state between 1789 and 1908, taking into account legal changes, demographic policies, new sanitary measures and proto-nationalistic agenda of the ruling ...
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Contemporary and Independent The Transformation of Female Identity in Turkey from the Tanzimat to the Republic [PDF]
İnsan & Toplum, 2019 : Since the beginning of the 20th century when the identities of men and women were reconstructed as a social category, modern states have been directed to produce new gender policies in the processes of nationalization through the slogan of modernizing ...
Hicret Toprak
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