Media, Religion, Citizenship: Transnational Alevi Media and Its Audience

by Dr Kumru Berfin Emre

Media, Religion, Citizenship explores Alevi media and the ways in which it has generated a particular form of citizenship for Alevis in Turkey and across Europe. Alevis are a vibrant, transnational community across Europe whose claim for recognition has been denied. Drawing on an ethnographic study of the community, interviews with media workers, and analysis of television programmes, Emre demonstrates how Alevi media has paved the way for transversal imaginaries and rights claims that include different localities. Media, Religion, Citizenship also contributes to the decolonising of media studies by situating Alevi media within the history of Alevi movement and engaging critically with Eurocentric accounts of media and citizenship.

166 pages, Hardcover

Published March 2, 2023

Reviews

[Zeynep · Rating 4 out of 5]

“Identity is a constant work which is shaped within social encounters with close and distant others”
Found this book in the school library, very glad I picked it up. It discusses the Alevi identity through a cultural citizenship lense. It is a lense that I was not as familiar with but one that seems to be just as important. The examples given of Alevi discrimation in Turkey are so poignant that it reminded me how real our collective memory is. Thank you.