Cultural reification in Circassian diaspora: Stereotypes, prejudices and ethnic relations

dc.authoridKaya, Ayhan/0000-0003-4431-3220
dc.authorwosidKaya, Ayhan/G-7090-2016
dc.contributor.authorKaya, Ayhan
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:45:16Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:45:16Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.departmentFakülteler, Sosyal ve Beşeri Bilimler Fakültesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümüen_US
dc.description.abstractContemporary diaspora identities differ to a certain extent from conventional forms of diasporic formations in the sense that the former are no longer characterised by the overwhelming wish to return. Contemporary diasporas are built upon two principal pillars: modern communicative circuitry, and acts of exclusion by receiving societies. Deported by the Russians from their homeland in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Circassian tribes were welcomed by the Ottoman Empire for practical reasons. Since then they have been subject to several acts of both inclusion and exclusion by the Turkish Republic. They were also treated differently by their local neighbour groups. This paper claims that Circassian groups in diaspora have generated distinct ethnic and cultural identities depending on how they were recognised, or unrecognised, both by their neighbours and by the Turkish state. Cultural reification, or essentialisation, becomes common practice among diaspora groups, providing them with a safe haven against misrepresentation, prejudice, exclusion and discrimination. Cultural reification not only adds to the construction of a sense of communality, but also serves as a way of doing politics for the Circassians in diaspora. Culture, then, not only remains a heritage, but also becomes a political strategy.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/1369183042000305717
dc.identifier.endpage149en_US
dc.identifier.issn1369-183X
dc.identifier.issn1469-9451
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-12244284670en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage129en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/1369183042000305717
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/7489
dc.identifier.volume31en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000226449700006en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Ethnic and Migration Studiesen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectCircassiansen_US
dc.subjectDiasporaen_US
dc.subjectİdentityen_US
dc.subjectCultural Reificationen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.subjectStereotypesen_US
dc.subjectIdentityen_US
dc.titleCultural reification in Circassian diaspora: Stereotypes, prejudices and ethnic relationsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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