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 definitions of Aleviness, the movement is in this sense an "identity movement without an identity."
| ISBN: | 9780415667968 |
| Publication date: | 7th August 2012 |
| Author: | Élise Massicard |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 255 pages |
| Series: | Exeter Studies in Ethno Politics |
| Genres: |
Ethnic studies Regional / International studies Politics and government Religion and beliefs |
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 definitions of Aleviness, the movement is in this sense an "identity movement without an identity."
The Alevis in Turkey and Europe features in the following genres: Ethnic studies, Regional / International studies, Politics and government, Religion and beliefs
The Alevis in Turkey and Europe is available in Hardback
The Alevis in Turkey and Europe was written by Élise Massicard and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
The Alevis in Turkey and Europe has 255 pages
Yes it is part of Exeter Studies in Ethno Politics series
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