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Author Sözer, Hande.

Title Managing invisibility : dissimulation and identity maintenance among Alevi Bulgarian Turks / by Hande Sozer.

Publication Info. Boston : Brill, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
text file
Series Balkan Studies Library
Balkan studies library.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acknowledgments -- List of maps -- List of abbreviations -- Paradoxical invisibility : fortifying invisibility for empowerment in the face of disempowering structural invisibilities -- Open methods for researching hidden populations : epistemological and ethical issues -- Dissimulation : retaining minority identity while pretending to be part of the majority -- Alevi Bulgarian Trks' self-perceptions of the alevi ways : "the path is one; while practices are a thousand and one" -- Dissimilation and assimilation -- Conclusion -- Appendix a -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary In Managing Invisibility, Hande Sözer examines complicated invisibilities of Alevi Bulgarian Turks as a double-minority which faces structural and societal discrimination in Bulgaria and Turkey. The data for the book was gathered during 18 months of fieldwork in both settings.
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Subject Aliani (Bulgarian people) -- Ethnic identity.
Aliani (Bulgarian people)
Ethnicity.
Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations.
Religious minorities -- Bulgaria.
Religious minorities.
Bulgaria.
Religious minorities -- Turkey.
Turkey.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Sözer, Hande. Managing invisibility. 9789004279186 9004279180 (DLC) 2014019589
ISBN 9004279199 (electronic book)
9789004279193 (electronic book)
9789004279186 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9004279180 (hardback ; alkaline paper)