1990 sonrası Türkiye'sinde Aleviliğin farklı yüzleri

This study mainly questions the multiplicity of Alevi identities by asking how people form their identities on the basis of the daily encounters of exclusion. Basically, the research focuses on how Alevi identity is produced and reproduced through the transformations of the post-1990 period, the so-called period of ?Alevi revival,? in Turkey. Based on 28 in-depth interviews with Alevi respondents living in Istanbul, this study shows that there are basically two different ways of telling the story of the post-1990 period in terms of the Alevi issue: In the first way of narration, post-1990 period appears as a time span which has enabled Alevis to be organized and to gain public visibility. In the second way of narration the period is described as a process which accelerated the assimilation of Alevis. The study argues that this difference is caused by the kind of exclusion that the respondents experienced in their daily lives. Drawing from Pierre Bourdieu?s field analysis and Margaret Somers? narrative analysis of identity, this study shows that different ways of experiencing exclusion is central for the emergence of multiple Alevi identities in the post 1990 period in Turkey.