Dersim Across Borders: Political Transmittances Between the Kurdish-Turkish Province Tunceli and Europe

Abstract

In this paper the authors show how the Kurdish Alevi and predominant Zazakî-speaking people from Dersim/Tunceli have engaged in the rewriting of their regional history, the protection of landscapes and their sociality. They have often emphasized their differences of religion, language and ethnicity and contributed to a remarkable circulation of political and historical knowledge and transnational practices between Turkey and Europe. The authors follow these activities across borders in order to show how transnational engagement is shaping local transformations in different contexts, regions and nation-states. The examination of transnational, multidimensional, multilevel and multidirectional flows of critique, claims and protests allows rejecting ‘the receiving country bias’ and goes beyond a simplifying migration-development nexus. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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