Following the dead beyond the ‘nation
A map for transnational Alevi funerary routes from Europe to Turkey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7767282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Besim Can Zirh (0000-0003-3506-6096, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1758-1774 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870.2012.659274 |
| OpenAlex | W2029940716 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 26 |
Life-cycle rituals such as weddings and funerals vigorously stimulate transnational engagements among immigrant communities. On the basis of a two-year multi-sited ethnographic research project among Alevi immigrant communities in Europe, this article approaches the process of 'revival', by which Alevism has evolved from a locally invisible to a transnationally visible belief community, through the lens of mortuary practices. The 'mortuary focus' draws attention to the significance of funeral rituals to the study of transnational engagements of contemporary immigrant communities beyond methodological nationalism. This analysis thus considers the act of transporting deceased community members back to their home-village as a ritualized and spatial practice of (transnational) community-making beyond national categories and cartographies
Ethnography · Immigration · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Turkey's Politics and Society
Governing Cemeteries
Religious Politics in Turkey
Citoyenneté et rituels funéraires des immigrants. Le cas de migrants congolais au Canada
Alevi Pasts in the Present
‘Are you a Muslim?’
The Role of Cultural Heritage in the Creation of a Sense of Belonging among Young Norwegian Turks
Beyond methodological nationalism in insider research with migrants
Turkish–German Transnational Social Space
Alevi Spatial Politics
Burial and Belonging
Only the Body Dies, Souls Can Never Be Slain’
Euro-Who? Competition over the definition of Dersim’s collective identity in Turkey’s diasporas
Rethinking the Justice and Development Party’s ‘Alevi openings’
From a ‘sort of Muslim’ to ‘proud to be Alevi’
Constructing a social space for Alevi political identity
The Transnational Afterlives of European Muslims
Mapping-Ofrenda
Death in the Peripheries
Scripting Remittances
Why Do People Migrate? Fresh Takes on the Foundational Question of Migration Studies
The Importance of a Religious Funeral Ceremony Among Turkish Migrants and Their Descendants in Germany
End-of-life Care and Rituals in Contexts of Post-migration Diversity in Europe
Between Civil Society and the State
The Afterlife of Gender
Does Place Matter? Burial Decisions of Muslims in Canada
Between Islam and the nation; nation‐building, the ulama and Alevi identity in Turkey
Migration, collective remittances and religion
Taking Care of Others and the Self through Islamic Funeral Service in Berlin
Nationalism in the twentieth century
Elements of social organization
Celebrations of Death
Ethnography in/of the World System
Anthropological Locations
Transnationalism From Below
Ethnography through Thick and Thin
Death and Bereavement Across Cultures
Reframing Mexican Migration as a Multi-Ethnic Process
Tradition and modernity
The territorial trap
Approaches to Sociology
Towards a Theoretical Ethnography of Migration
Transnational Migration and the Economy of Funerals
Crossing the Border
Death Rituals and Life in the Societies of the Kula Ring
The Samoan Funeral in Urban America
Death of a migrant
Reinterpreting the Rural-Urban Connection
Critical Ethnography in the Time of Globalization
Methodological nationalism and beyond
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,15 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |