Media, religion, citizenship : transnational Alevi media and its audience / Kumru Berfin Emre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Çetin, Berfin Emre, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alevis--Turkey--Social conditions.

Alevis.

Mass media--Religious aspects--Islam.

Mass media.

Turkey.

Other Title:

Media, Religion, Citizenship

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press

Summary:

Media, Religion, Citizenship is about Alevi media and the ways in which it has generated a particular form of citizenship. Alevis are a vibrant transnational community across Europe whose right claims for recognition has been denied in Turkey. Drawing on an ethnographic study of the community, interviews wtih media workers, and analysis of television programmes, the book demonstrates that Alevi media paves the way for transversal imaginaries and rights claims that include different localities. The book also contributes to the decoloniality of media studies by situating Alevi media within the history of Alevi movement and critically engages with Eurocentric accounts of media and citizenship.

Contents:

Reseraching Alevi media

Transversal citizenship in the digital era

Transnational Alevi politics and Alevi citizenship

Transversal acts of citizenship

Transnational media, transversal imageries

Alevi viewership and transversal imaginaries

Communicative ethnocide and transversal citizenship

Limits of transversal citizenship

Transversal citizenship in a complex media environment.

ISBN:

1-80596-111-X

0-19-888884-8