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In Managing Invisibility, Hande Sözer examines complicated invisibilities of Alevi Bulgarian Turks, a double-minority which faces structural discrimination in Bulgaria and Turkey. While the literat...
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25 July 2014

In Managing Invisibility, Hande Sözer examines complicated invisibilities of Alevi Bulgarian Turks, a double-minority which faces structural discrimination in Bulgaria and Turkey. While the literature portrays minorities’ visibility as a requirement for their empowerment or a source of their surveillance, the book argues that for such minorities what matters is their control over their own visibility. To make this point, it focuses on the concept protective dissimulation, a strategy of self-imposed invisibility. It discusses cases indicating Alevi Bulgarian Turks’ strategies of dealing with historically changing majorities in their larger societies and argues that dissimulation actually reinforces the intergroup distinctions for the minority’s members. The data for the book was gathered during 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Bulgaria and Turkey.
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Pages: 238
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Balkan Studies Library
Publication Date:
25 July 2014
ISBN: 9789004279186
Format: Hardcover
Hande Sözer, Ph.D. in Anthropology (2013), University of Pittsburgh, is faculty member at the Political Science and International Relations Program at Middle East Technical University (METU), Northern Cyprus Campus.