Alevist Movements at Home and Abroad

Mobilization Spaces and Disjunction

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6094035
AutoresElise Massicard (0000-0002-7857-3541, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Administratives, Politiques et Sociales, autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume29
Páginas163-187
Data de publicação2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNew Perspectives on Turkey (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0896-6346 • E-ISSN: 1305-3299
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0896634600006154
OpenAlexW2216525042
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas15

The Alevist movement developed almost simultaneously in Turkey and among Turkish migrants, but it is structured and acts quite differently in these distinct, albeit related, political spaces. This comparative empirical study tries to explain the differences in the discourses and the success of Alevist movements in Turkey and Germany by relating them to the broader institutional and discursive contexts within which they are embedded. Alevist movements are incorporated differently in state policies directed to claim-makers and consequently possess different discursive and institutional resources. Spatially bounded institutional contexts and political agendas frame the discourse and strategies of Alevist claim-making, and result in divergent developments. It is thus necessary to disentangle the multiple levels of claim-and policy-making involved (local, national and supranational), and to analyze their relationships and possible articulations. ‘Transnational’ mobilization has often been understood as a mere continuation of mobilization at home or, oppositely, as its driving force. This paper questions the continuity between mobilizations at home and abroad, and argues that mobilization in migration entails specific dynamics, which may not be re-imported home

Linguistics · Mobilization · Movement (music · Political economy · Political mobilization · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Turkish · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Turkey's Politics and Society