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

• Autore: Massicard Elise
• Pubblicazione: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.6/97822
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The Alevis in Turkey and Europe
• ISBN: 1-283-71156-7; 0-203-11124-9; 1-136-27799-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785968903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Exeter studies in ethno politics.