Publications récentes

F. Mermier – Urban Cosmopolitanisms in the Arab World: Contribution in the Theoretical Debates

Franck Mermier, « Urban Cosmopolitanisms in the Arab World: Contribution in the Theoretical Debates », in Catherine Lejeune, Delphine Pagès-El Karoui, Camille Schmoll et Hélène Thiollet (dir.), Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World, Cham (Suisse), Springer, 2021, pp. 55-65. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67365-9_5   The notion of cosmopolitanism has been the subject of many definitions and has attracted renewed interest in the context of globalization. Cosmopolitanism, however, in a sociological perspective, has two main meanings. It can refer to the skills of individuals who are able to move between different worlds precisely because of their cosmopolitan cultural capital. It also refers to the ethnic, cultural and religious plurality of cities, some of which may be more cosmopolitan than others. The two seem inseparable since the degree of cosmopolitanism

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A. Çelik – ‘Keep your mouth shut in the day and your door shut at night.’ Intra-Kurdish Violence in the Shadow of the State: The case of Hizbullah in Kurdistan of Turkey

Çelik, Adnan. 2021. “Keep Your Mouth Shut in the Day and Your Door Shut at Night ». Intra-Kurdish Violence in the Shadow of the State: The Case of Hizbullah in Kurdistan of Turkey. Kurdish Studies 9 (1). pp. 37-57. https://doi.org/10.33182/ks.v9i1.563. This article focuses on the main three limitations of the current studies on Hizbullah, an Islamist organisation in Turkey operative during the 1990s: the lack of historicisation of the trajectory of Hizbullah and its members, the lack of consideration of the spatial dimension of its spread and the absence of grounded studies about how it has functioned at the local level. Taking the case of Silvan, a small town in the province of Diyarbakir, the article investigates and analyses Hizbullah’s repertoire of action in

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A. Lamesa – Les différents sens du terme Καππαδοκία dans la Géographie de Strabon

Lamesa Anaïs, « Les différents sens du terme Καππαδοκία dans la Géographie de Strabon », Dialogues d’histoire ancienne, 2021/Supplément22 (S 22), pp. 209-225. https://www.cairn.info/revue-dialogues-d-histoire-ancienne-2021-Supplément22-page-209.htm La construction littéraire du territoire cappadocien semble débuter dès le Ve siècle avant J.-C. par Hérodote. Sa définition se précise progressivement à mesure que l’Anatolie est parcourue. Avec le traité d’Apamée (188 avant J.-C.), un clientélisme s’établit entre le roi de Cappadoce et Rome, l’un dépendant économiquement et militairement de l’autre. Ces rapports étroits accélèrent la connaissance géographique de la région. Au tout début du Ier siècle après J.-C., Strabon paraît définir la zone. Curieusement, après l’intégration du royaume de Cappadoce à l’Empire romain par Tibère (17 après J.-C.), les auteurs antiques rencontrent des difficultés à comprendre le sens du terme Καππαδοκία, puisqu’il désigne à la fois un district,

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A. Aupiais – “Have You Ever Been Told That God Loves You?” Conjugality, Celibacy, and the Heterosexual Division of Religious Labour in an Istanbul Mixed Pentecostal Church

Aupiais, A. (2021). “Have You Ever Been Told That God Loves You?” Conjugality, Celibacy, and the Heterosexual Division of Religious Labour in an Istanbul Mixed Pentecostal Church, Social Sciences and Missions, 34(1-2), 92-124. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/18748945-bja10014 This article focuses on the division of religious labour according to both gender and marital situation, based on an ethnographic survey in a Pentecostal church with a mixed membership in Istanbul (Turkey). Following the description of religious labour throughout its six areas, this research shows that celibacy is made relatively invisible inside the church, where the emphasis is on conjugality and family, while the latter bonds are de-emphasised in the outside world, where singles are at the forefront. “Love” appears as a multifaceted reality, encompassing

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