Abstract
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 297-315 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Culture and Religion |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Nov 2009 |
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Keywords
- Turkey
- Islam
- Europe
- orientalism
- subjectivity
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The generous exclusion of Ottoman-Islamic Europe : British press advocacy of Turkish EU membership. / Bryce, Derek.
In: Culture and Religion, Vol. 10, No. 3, 11.2009, p. 297-315.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - The generous exclusion of Ottoman-Islamic Europe
T2 - British press advocacy of Turkish EU membership
AU - Bryce, Derek
PY - 2009/11
Y1 - 2009/11
N2 - This article explores commentary in UK newspapers which, while sympathetic to the notion of Turkish EU membership, still deploys a discourse that remains exclusionary where assumptions of Turkey's intrinsic cultural and civilisational 'Europeanness' are concerned. Turkish member- ship is advocated as a sort of strategic supplement to a historical ontology of 'Europe' proceeding from a grand narrative of Latin Christendom - Reformation - Enlightenment - Modernity (adorned with the selective appropriation of Classical antiquity), superimposed upon a wider historico- cultural and religious milieu. Membership is supported on the basis that Turkey is an exceptional case, considered on the instrumental grounds of guaranteeing Turkish secular democracy within the context of EU institutions while presenting an 'example' to the wider Islamic 'world'. Support for membership does not proceed from assumptions that Turkey may possess an existing, intrinsic, historically locatable European 'right', implied by the extension of the EU into Ottoman successor states in south-eastern Europe as well as Cyprus. The potential for the deployment of this latter discourse to support Turkish membership from an assumed a priori cultural and historical European belonging is explored.
AB - This article explores commentary in UK newspapers which, while sympathetic to the notion of Turkish EU membership, still deploys a discourse that remains exclusionary where assumptions of Turkey's intrinsic cultural and civilisational 'Europeanness' are concerned. Turkish member- ship is advocated as a sort of strategic supplement to a historical ontology of 'Europe' proceeding from a grand narrative of Latin Christendom - Reformation - Enlightenment - Modernity (adorned with the selective appropriation of Classical antiquity), superimposed upon a wider historico- cultural and religious milieu. Membership is supported on the basis that Turkey is an exceptional case, considered on the instrumental grounds of guaranteeing Turkish secular democracy within the context of EU institutions while presenting an 'example' to the wider Islamic 'world'. Support for membership does not proceed from assumptions that Turkey may possess an existing, intrinsic, historically locatable European 'right', implied by the extension of the EU into Ottoman successor states in south-eastern Europe as well as Cyprus. The potential for the deployment of this latter discourse to support Turkish membership from an assumed a priori cultural and historical European belonging is explored.
KW - Turkey
KW - Islam
KW - Europe
KW - orientalism
KW - subjectivity
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DO - 10.1080/14755610903279721
M3 - Article
VL - 10
SP - 297
EP - 315
JO - Culture and Religion
JF - Culture and Religion
SN - 1475-5610
IS - 3
ER -