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Struggling for Recognition

The Alevi Movement in Germany and in Transnational Space
1. Aufl.

von: Martin Sökefeld
38,99 €
Verlag:	Berghahn Books
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	01.05.2008
ISBN/EAN:	9780857450142
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	302

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Titelbeschreibung

As a religious and cultural minority in Turkey, the Alevis have suffered a long history of persecution and discrimination. In the late 1980s they started a movement for the recognition of Alevi identity in both Germany and Turkey. Today, they constitute a significant segment of Germany’s Turkish immigrant population. In a departure from the current debate on identity and diaspora, Sökefeld offers a rich account of the emergence and institutionalization of the Alevi movement in Germany, giving particular attention to its politics of recognition within Germany and in a transnational context. The book deftly combines empirical findings with innovative theoretical arguments and addresses current questions of migration, diaspora, transnationalism, and identity.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments List of figures and tables
 Introduction
 Chapter 1. Identity and recognition Chapter 2. Going public Chapter 3. Organising Alevis Chapter 4. crosscurrents of identitifaction Chapter 5. The politics of memory: Remembering Sivas Chapter 6. Ritual and community: The changing meaning of cem and dedes Chapter 7. Recognition and the politics of migration in Germany Chapter 8. Transnational connections and the claims of the nation
 Conclusion
 Glossary References

Autorenportrait

Martin Sökefeld is professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Munich, Germany. He previously taught at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Hamburg, Germany. In 1997 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen and his Habilitation from the University of Hamburg in 2005. Sökefeld has also done fieldwork on ethnicity in the Northern Areas of Pakistan.