Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of mass media to explore how public life is perceived and made by residents in Turkey's Syrian borderlands. Deploying two case studies from the ethnically and religiously diverse border provinces of Mardin and Hatay, we investigate how people in these borderlands contest and renegotiate terms of solidarity across multiple forms of social difference, considering how this process both responds to and is reflected in larger shifts in Turkey's politics, economy, and public culture. In addition, we explore how differently positioned actors practice manifold forms of identification and competing forms of political alignment, paying close attention to how “ideological axes of social differentiation” (Gal and Irvine 2019) are deployed in understanding and making relations of solidarity and difference.
Source: Conflict and Society
Authors: Patrick C. Lewis, José Rafael Medeiros Coelho
Institutions: University of Mississippi, University of Groningen
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4392451200