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Protecting the Sacred Nature of Dersim: Environmental Activism at the Margins
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Protecting the Sacred Nature of Dersim: Environmental Activism at the Margins
My research explores the multilayered dynamics of environmental activism in Dersim (Tunceli with its Turkified official name), a Kurdish-Alevi populated city in Eastern Turkey, against the commoditization of the sacred nature in line with the AKP government’s market-friendly neoliberal policies and Sunni-inclined tendencies.
Erstgutachter: Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger