ABSTRACT

This paper investigates how and why Alevis in Turkey have insisted that they are not a minority community and have been reluctant to formulate their religio-cultural demands in the framework of minority rights, thereby challenging what is often called liberal multiculturalism. Inquiring into the type of minority community Alevis form, alongside Turkey’s minority rights history, it explains why the case of Alevis necessitates a certain revaluation of liberal multiculturalism, as well as a reformulation of group-specific minority rights. We argue that the liberal multiculturalist understanding of minority rights may force minorities to lead a socially isolated and apolitical life, with no possibility to participate in a pluralistic reconstruction of the mainstream symbolic framework in society, which is contrary to the aims of Alevis in Turkey.

摘要

本文调查了土耳其的Alevis如何以及为什么坚持认为自己不是少数群体，并且不愿意在少数群体权利的框架内提出他们的宗教文化要求，从而挑战了通常被称为自由多元文化主义的问题。对少数族裔社区Alevis形式的类型以及土耳其的少数族裔权利历史的探讨，解释了为什么Alevis案需要对自由多元文化主义进行一定的重新估价，以及重新制定特定群体的少数族裔权利。我们认为，自由主义的多元文化主义者对少数民族权利的理解可能会迫使少数民族过着与世隔绝的政治生活，不可能参与社会主流符号框架的多元化重建，这与土耳其的阿莱维斯的宗旨背道而驰。