There are around 20-25 million Alevis in the world, but they remain unknown to almost the entire world. The deliberate erasure of the Alevis in Turkey has rendered them globally invisible and their suppression continues even at the University of Virginia. Why has the world effaced the Alevis and what can we learn from their erasure?
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Urban sprawl is ugly and widely disliked, yet it composes most new development in Charlottesville and throughout North America. Why does this type of built environment persist and proliferate?
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