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oapen-20.500.12657-897412024-04-10T02:22:00Z Media, Religion, Citizenship Berfin Emre, Kumru media religion citizenship migration Alevis Turkey thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies::JBCT2 Media studies: TV and society thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFH Migration, immigration and emigration thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBC Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples This book is about Alevi media and the ways in which it has generated a particular form of citizenship that I call transversal citizenship. Alevis have been struggling for the right of recognition and equal citizenship in Turkey for decades. Despite this political struggle and its acknowledgement in the field of Alevi studies, their rights claims, with a few exceptions, have not been considered as acts of citizenship. Instead, their demands for equal citizenship have been situated within the framework of ‘identity politics’ in the post-Cold War context usually with pejorative undertones. This book examines the contemporary Alevi movement through theory of citizenship enactment and argues that Alevi media paves the way for transversal imaginaries and rights claims that embed different spatial levels into Alevi politics. In this book I also argue that in order to unpack the socio-political dynamics of Alevi media we must adopt a community-centred approach and make sense of Alevis’ boundary-making practices, political divisions and ethnic diversity. The book contributes to the decolonising of media studies by offering a critical perspective on community media and the decolonising of Alevi studies by critically examining some key postulates and unquestioned assumptions about the Alevi community which have been highly influenced by Turkish nationalism. 2024-04-09T12:21:45Z 2024-04-09T12:21:45Z 2023 book 9780197267424 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89741 eng British Academy Monographs application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9780197267424.pdf https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-religion-citizenship-9780197267424 Oxford University Press 10.5871/bacad/9780197267424.001.0001 10.5871/bacad/9780197267424.001.0001 b9501915-cdee-4f2a-8030-9c0b187854b2 1f9d9f09-ced0-41ef-ba7d-e669f14238d1 9780197267424 167 Oxford British Academy The British Academy open access
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This book is about Alevi media and the ways in which it has generated a particular form of citizenship that I call transversal citizenship. Alevis have been struggling for the right of recognition and equal citizenship in Turkey for decades. Despite this political struggle and its acknowledgement in the field of Alevi studies, their rights claims, with a few exceptions, have not been considered as acts of citizenship. Instead, their demands for equal citizenship have been situated within the framework of ‘identity politics’ in the post-Cold War context usually with pejorative undertones. This book examines the contemporary Alevi movement through theory of citizenship enactment and argues that Alevi media paves the way for transversal imaginaries and rights claims that embed different spatial levels into Alevi politics. In this book I also argue that in order to unpack the socio-political dynamics of Alevi media we must adopt a community-centred approach and make sense of Alevis’ boundary-making practices, political divisions and ethnic diversity. The book contributes to the decolonising of media studies by offering a critical perspective on community media and the decolonising of Alevi studies by critically examining some key postulates and unquestioned assumptions about the Alevi community which have been highly influenced by Turkish nationalism.
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