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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Massicard, Élise, author.

Series:

Exeter studies in ethno politics.

Exeter studies in ethno politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nosairians--Turkey--History.

Nosairians.

Nosairians--Europe--History.

Nosairians--Political activity--Turkey.

Nosairians--Political activity--Europe.

Identity politics--Turkey.

Identity politics.

Identity politics--Europe.

Group identity--Turkey.

Group identity.

Group identity--Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

pt. I. A polymorphous and divided movement

pt. II. Difficulties in entrenching the movement in Turkey

pt. III. The localisation of identity.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-71156-7

0-203-11124-9

1-136-27799-4

9780203111246

OCLC:

817890127