Understanding urban Alevism through its socio-spatial manifestations: cemevis in İzmir

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العنوان: Understanding urban Alevism through its socio-spatial manifestations: cemevis in İzmir
المؤلفون: Seher Sen, Bayram Ali Soner
المصدر: Middle Eastern Studies. 52:694-710
بيانات النشر: Informa UK Limited, 2016.
سنة النشر: 2016
مصطلحات موضوعية: Cultural Studies, History, 060101 anthropology, Sociology and Political Science, Human rights, media_common.quotation_subject, Geography, Planning and Development, Identity (social science), Gender studies, 06 humanities and the arts, Socio spatial, Worship, Denial, Categorization, Urbanization, 0601 history and archaeology, Sociology, Social science, media_common
الوصف: Cemevis emerged as the spaces of the Alevi identity in contemporary cities of Turkey. On the basis of in-depth interviews conducted in Izmir with the heads of cemevi associations, this study claims that, while cemevis were enforced by the process of urbanization, they have been transforming the Alevi practices and collective organizations and eventually constructing a new type of Alevism as to religious practices, community institutions and collective imagination. Though no legal–political recognition has yet been granted to cemevis as the places of worship, they have established themselves as central institutions of urban Alevis with their extensive use beyond the limited oppositional categorization of culture–religion. This denial of legal status which has been seen as the violation of basic human rights is one of the main constitutive dynamics in the ongoing debates on Turkey's Alevi question. It is to such an extent that the denial of legal status to cemevis has today come to be identified by ...
تدمد: 1743-7881
0026-3206
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::ec1ccbc228ea30dada534f0c77b48606
https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2016.1176919
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi...........ec1ccbc228ea30dada534f0c77b48606
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE