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" I Am a Teacher, a Women's Activist, and a Mother: Political Consciousness and Embodied Resistance in Antakya's Arab Alawite Community "
Defne Sarsilmaz
Smith, Benjamin; Faria, Caroline
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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805119
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TL49968
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2103316505; 10932498
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Attarabeen, Omar F. S.
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I Am a Teacher, a Women's Activist, and a Mother: Political Consciousness and Embodied Resistance in Antakya's Arab Alawite Community\ Defne SarsilmazSmith, Benjamin; Faria, Caroline
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Florida International University
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2017
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Ph.D.
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Global and Sociocultural Studies
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2017
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309
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Committee members: Akhtar, Iqbal; Hintzen, Percy; Patil, Vrushali
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-438-32350-6
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Often pointed to as the region’s model secular state, Turkey provides an instructive case study in how nationalism, in the name of conjuring ‘unity’, often produces the opposite effect. Indeed, the production of nationalism can create fractures amongst, as well as politicize, certain segments of a population, such as minority groups and women. This dissertation examines the long-term and present-day impacts on nationalist unity of a largely understudied event, the annexation of the border-city of Antakya from Syria in 1939, and its implications on the Arab Alawite population. In doing so, it deconstructs the dominant Turkish narrative on the annexation, rewrites the narrative drawing on oral history from the ground, and it shows how nation-building is a masculinist project that relies on powerfully gendered language through studying the national archives. The heart of the project, however, remains the investigation of the political, social, and religious subjectivity of Arab Alawite women, with an emphasis on resistance to the structures and practices sustained by the state and patriarchy.
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Sexuality; Geography; Middle Eastern Studies
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Social sciences;Psychology;Antakya;Arab alawite women;Arab alawites;Hatay;Nation-building;Turkey
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Smith, Benjamin; Faria, Caroline
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Global and Sociocultural StudiesFlorida International University
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