As a religious and cultural minority in Turkey, the Alevis have suffered a long history of persecution and discrimination. In the late 1980s they started a movement for the recognition of Alevi identity in both Germany and Turkey. Today, they constitute a significant segment of Germany’s Turkish immigrant population. In a departure from the current debate on identity and diaspora, Sökefeld offers a rich account of the emergence and institutionalization of the Alevi movement in Germany, giving particular attention to its politics of recognition within Germany and in a transnational context. The book deftly combines empirical findings with innovative theoretical arguments and addresses current questions of migration, diaspora, transnationalism, and identity.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
List of figures and tables
Introduction
Chapter 1. Identity and recognition
Chapter 2. Going public
Chapter 3. Organising Alevis
Chapter 4. crosscurrents of identitifaction
Chapter 5. The politics of memory: Remembering Sivas
Chapter 6. Ritual and community: The changing meaning of cem and dedes
Chapter 7. Recognition and the politics of migration in Germany
Chapter 8. Transnational connections and the claims of the nation
Conclusion
Glossary
References
About the author
Martin Sökefeld is professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Munich, Germany. He previously taught at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Hamburg, Germany. In 1997 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen and his Habilitation from the University of Hamburg in 2005. Sökefeld has also done fieldwork on ethnicity in the Northern Areas of Pakistan.
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