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Managing Invisibility: Dissimulation and Identity Maintenance among Alevi Bulgarian Turks(15 Balkan Studies Library)

Managing Invisibility: Dissimulation and Identity Maintenance among Alevi Bulgarian Turks(15 Balkan Studies Library)

          
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In Managing Invisibility, Hande Sözer examines complicated invisibilities of Alevi Bulgarian Turks, a double-minority which faces structural discrimination in Bulgaria and Turkey. While the literature portrays minorities’ visibility as a requirement for their empowerment or a source of their surveillance, the book argues that for such minorities what matters is their control over their own visibility. To make this point, it focuses on the concept protective dissimulation, a strategy of self-imposed invisibility. It discusses cases indicating Alevi Bulgarian Turks’ strategies of dealing with historically changing majorities in their larger societies and argues that dissimulation actually reinforces the intergroup distinctions for the minority’s members. The data for the book was gathered during 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Bulgaria and Turkey.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS LIST OF MAPS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS CHAPTER ONE PARADOXICAL INVISIBILITY: FORTIFYING INVISIBILITY FOR EMPOWERMENT IN THE FACE OF DISEMPOWERING STRUCTURAL INVISIBILITIES WHY ALEVIS, ALEVI BULGARIAN TURKS AND THEIR INVISIBILITIES? INVISIBILITIES AND THE NOTION OF DISSIMULATION FIELD SITES OUTLINE OF THE CHAPTERS CHAPTER TWO: OPEN METHODS FOR RESEARCHING HIDDEN POPULATIONS: EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES AN EMPIRICAL QUESTION: “HOW DO YOU KNOW YOUR INFORMANTS HAVE NOT DISSIMULATED TO YOU?” Access Hinting Alevis’ Visibilities and Invisibilities A Complicated Situation of Rapport: “Interview as a Form of İbadet (Worshipping)” Not Really a Native Ethnographer: “I Am a Zahiri, Not a Yezid” Red Flags: The Secret, Slanders and Other Taboo Issues AN ETHICAL QUESTION: “IF DISSIMULATION IS A SURVIVAL TACTIC FOR ALEVIS, HOW MIGHT PUBLISHING ABOUT THESE TACTICS INFLUENCE THE COMMUNITY?” RESEARCH DESIGN Research Sites Interviews and Informant Profiles Participant Observation, Venues and Events CHAPTER THREE: DISSIMULATION: RETAINING MINORITY IDENTITY WHILE PRETENDING TO BE PART OF THE MAJORITY DISSIMULATION IN-BETWEEN DISSIMILATION AND ASSIMILATION MINORITIES, AND MINORITIES WITHIN MINORITIES NATIONAL MINORITIES AND A NOTION OF COLLECTIVE AGENCY BORDERS AND FRONTIERS CHAPTER FOUR: HISTORY, HISTORICITY, HISTORIOGRAPHY: EXTERNALIZING ALEVISM FROM THE BULGARIAN TURKISH GROUP HISTORY Principality in Bulgaria, Monarchy in the Ottoman Empire (1878-1908) The Kingdom and the Republic in Bulgaria, the Monarchy in the Ottoman Empire (1908-1923) Totalitarianism in Bulgaria and the Single-Party Republic in Turkey (1923-1944) Socialist People’s Republic in Bulgaria, Multi-Party Republic in Turkey (1944-1989) Multi-party Republics in both Bulgaria and Turkey (1989-2013) HISTORIOGRAPHY Conflicting Historiographies on the Ottoman Rule in Bulgaria Conflicting Historiographies on Bulgarian Turks Conflicting Historiographies on Alevis with their Harmonious Exclusion HISTORICITY Alevi and Sunni Bulgarian Turks Narratives on the Closure of the Gap Between the Nation and the State Sunni Bulgarian Turks’ Narratives related to Alevi Bulgarian Turks: Narratives Indicating Individual “Assimilation” and Dissimulation by People of Alevi Heritage CHAPTER FIVE: ALEVI BULGARIAN TURKS’ SELF-PERCEPTIONS OF THE ALEVI WAYS: “THE PATH IS ONE; WHILE PRACTICES ARE A THOUSAND AND ONE” THE ALEVI PATH AS THE RELIGIOUS IDEAL-TYPE ABOUT ALEVISM The Alevi Path as a religious ideal-type AN OUTLINE OF ALEVI IDEAL TYPE VERSUS SUNNI AND SHIA ISLAM ALEVISM AMONG BULGARIAN TURKS VERSUS ALEVISM IN TURKEY ALEVISM AMONG BULGARIAN TURKS ACCORDING TO THE SUBGROUPS Alevism among Bulgarian Turks across the regional segments CHAPTER SIX: DISSIMULATION AS IN-YOUR-FACE DISGUISE: SPEAKING OTHERS’ LANGUAGES, PRACTICING OTHERS’ PRACTICES, MANIPULATING OTHERS’ PLACES DISSIMULATION, SECRECY AND THE ALEVI SECRET: “In-your-face disguise:” Talking about the Secret without talking about what it is “In Your Face Disguise”: Hiding a One’s Well-known Alevi Heritage SPEAKING OTHERS’ LANGUAGES: DISSIMULATION VIA CODE LANGUAGE Use of Code Words in relation to Insiders Use of Code Words in relation to Outsiders PRACTICING OTHERS’ PRACTICES: Performing Sunni religious practices The Holy Birth Week Friday Prayer on Hıdrellez MANIPULATING OTHERS’ SPACES: Building Sunni Mosques Participating in Mosque Commissions SLOGANS FOR INTER-GROUP RELATIONS “Follow/watch out the Şeriat, Hide the Tarikat” in Relation to Sunnis “Our Difference is thinner than an Onion Skin” in relation to Bulgarians Dissimulation of secular identity in relation to socialist Bulgarians “We are all Turkish” to secular Turks. CHAPTER SEVEN: DISSIMILATION AND ASSIMILATION DISSIMILATION Separating the Greetings Separating names and separating spaces: Kızılbaş versus Turkish Villages Separating families: Separations related to türbes Forming separate organizations ASSIMILATION Sunnification or “Becoming Bigoted” [Yobazlaşmak] Not Alevi But not Sunni Either: “Becoming Undomesticated” [Yabanileşmek] CONCLUSION APPENDIX BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789004279186
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
  • Depth: 19
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 0 mm
  • Weight: 501 gr
  • ISBN-10: 9004279180
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jul 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 238
  • Series Title: 15 Balkan Studies Library
  • Sub Title: Dissimulation and Identity Maintenance among Alevi Bulgarian Turks
  • Width: 155 mm


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