Editorial: Alevi Kurds: History, politics and identity

Cetin, U., Jenkins, C. and Aydin, S. 2020. Editorial: Alevi Kurds: History, politics and identity. Kurdish Studies. 8 (1), pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.33182/ks.v8i1.558

TitleEditorial: Alevi Kurds: History, politics and identity
TypeEdited issue
AuthorsCetin, U., Jenkins, C. and Aydin, S.
Abstract

This special issue brings together scholarship on Alevi Kurds by focusing on their ethnic, linguistic, religious, political, cultural and social specificity including a range of articles from the disciplines of anthropology, history, politics, linguistics and sociology. The first part focuses on Turkey, exploring the roots of Kurdish Alevism and how Alevi religious identities intersect with ethnic and national identity and political representations, and the second focuses on Alevi Kurds and their creation of a transnational religious identity and their mixed experience of settlement in the UK diaspora.

KeywordsKurdish Alevism
assimilation
transnational migration
diaspora
community
JournalKurdish Studies
Journal citation8 (1), pp. 1-6
ISSN2051-4883
2051-4891
Year2020
PublisherTransnational Press London
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.33182/ks.v8i1.558
Publication dates
PublishedMay 2020

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