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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462192703321

Autore

Massicard Elise

Titolo

The Alevis in Turkey and Europe : identity and managing territorial diversity / / Elise Massicard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-283-71156-7

0-203-11124-9

1-136-27799-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Exeter studies in ethno politics

Disciplina

305.6/97822

Soggetti

Nosairians - Turkey - History

Nosairians - Europe - History

Nosairians - Political activity - Turkey

Nosairians - Political activity - Europe

Identity politics - Turkey

Identity politics - Europe

Group identity - Turkey

Group identity - Europe

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. A polymorphous and divided movement -- pt. II. Difficulties in entrenching the movement in Turkey -- pt. III. The localisation of identity.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the development of identity politics amongst the Alevis in Europe and Turkey, which simultaneously provided the movement access to different resources and challenged its unity of action. While some argue that Aleviness is a religious phenomenon, and others claim it is a cultural or a political trend, this book analyzes the various strategies of claim-making and reconstructions of Aleviness as well as responses to the movement by various Turkish and German actors. Drawing on intensive fieldwork, Elise Massicard suggests that because of activists' many different defi