Struggling for Recognition

The Alevi Movement in Germany and in Transnational Space
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84545-478-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 591 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sökefeld, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

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

Über Autor(innen)

Sökefeld, Martin
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.