Editorial: Alevi Kurds: History, Politics and Identity

Authors

  • Umit Cetin University of Westminster
  • Celia Jenkins Celia Jenkins, Principal Lecturer in Sociology, School of Social Sciences, the University of Westminster, 32-38 Wells St. London W1T 3UW
  • Suavi Aydın Suavi Aydın, Professor, Faculty of Communication, Hacettepe University, 06800, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

Keywords:

Kurdish Alevism, assimilation, transnational migration, diaspora, community

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.

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Published

2022-09-04

How to Cite

Umit Cetin, Celia Jenkins, & Suavi Aydın. (2022). Editorial: Alevi Kurds: History, Politics and Identity. Kurdish Studies, 8(1). Retrieved from https://kurdishstudies.net/menu-script/index.php/KS/article/view/74

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2020): Special Issue: Alevi Kurds: History, Politics and Identity

Section

Editorial