Dünden Bugüne Sıla ile Gurbet Arasında Alevi Coğrafyası Üzerine

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2017-12-01

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Zırh, Besim Can

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This article aims to discuss the possibility of employing the concept of "Alevi geography" as a contribution to studies on Alevism as well as transnationalism literature. In this article, I will be using three main sources: related geographical notes in some ethnographic researches on Asia Minor/Turkey conducted in the last century, published memoirs of Alevis who personally experienced the processes of internal and external migration since the 1960s and my own research on Alevis as a particular group among immigrants from Turkey to Europe in the same period. I will argue that having their own social organization based on a particular belief-culture, Alevis create and maintain a distinctive anthropogeography. This evolved from "ocak-based socio-spiritual trans-regional networks", which stayed invisible under the nation-building process of Turkey, into "association-based socio-political trans-national networks" in the process of international migration. To conclude this discussion, I will introduce a nearly forgotten vernacular concept I came across during my field research in Germany. I assume this concept "kırmančiya belekê" (the motley homeland) will be helpful for us to consider geographical imagination beyond methodological nationalism

Subject Keywords

Human geography, Migration, Transnationalism, Alevilik, Coğrafya, Göç, Ulusötesi

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/70654

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Kebikeç İnsan Bilimleri İçin Kaynak Araştırmaları Dergisi

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Department of Sociology, Article

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B. C. Zırh, “Dünden Bugüne Sıla ile Gurbet Arasında Alevi Coğrafyası Üzerine,” Kebikeç İnsan Bilimleri İçin Kaynak Araştırmaları Dergisi, pp. 225–247, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/70654.