Managing invisibility : : dissimulation and identity maintenance among Alevi Bulgarian Turks /

Managing invisibility : : dissimulation and identity maintenance among Alevi Bulgarian Turks / / Hande Sözer.

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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 survei...

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Superior document:Balkan Studies Library, Volume 15
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Sözer, Hande,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Balkan studies library ; Volume 15.
Physical Description:1 online resource (252 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 Paradoxical Invisibility: Fortifying Invisibility for Empowerment in the Face of Disempowering Structural Invisibilities
  • 2 Open Methods for Researching Hidden Populations: Epistemological and Ethical Issues
  • 3 Dissimulation: Retaining Minority Identity while Pretending to be Part of the Majority
  • 4 History, Historicity, Historiography: Externalizing Alevism from the Bulgarian Turkish Group
  • 5 Alevi Bulgarian Turks’ Self-Perceptions of the Alevi Ways: “The Path is One; While Practices are a Thousand and One”
  • 6 Dissimulation as In-Your-Face Disguise: Speaking Others’ Languages, Practicing Others’ Practices, Manipulating Others’ Places
  • 7 Dissimilation and Assimilation
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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