Derek Bryce
Biographic Data
| ID | 166956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Derek Bryce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Derek |
| FAMILY NAME | Bryce |
| SIGNATURE | BRYCE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Strathclyde |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9500-7306 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
In but not fully of Europe’
The European Union (EU) and Council of Europe (CoE) are in a continuous struggle to identify the internal ‘Europeanness’ of their narratives, borders, boundaries, and regions. Since the 1980s, they introduced numerous cultural policies and heritage initiatives to identify and promote what their policy rhetoric calls ‘European identity’, a concept always used in the singular. These policies and heritage initiatives validate only certain aspects of…
Irreconcilability of heritage missions
This paper explores the tensions between access to heritage as a social good, its commercialization and the subsequent impact this has on service delivery. Drawing on the context of ancestral tourism, a growing heritage tourism segment requiring a high level of personalization, it develops arguments about the structural irreconcilability implicit in contemporary museum service delivery when staff resources do not meet the individualized demands o…
Orientalism, Balkanism and Europe's Ottoman heritage
What pulls ancestral tourists ‘home’? An analysis of ancestral tourist motivations
S aid, E dward
Edward Said (1935–2003) was a prominent Palestinian‐American cultural theorist of the late twentieth and early twenty‐first century. An academic specialist in comparative literature at Columbia University, he is perhaps best known for his book Orientalism and the associated works Culture and Imperialism and Covering Islam . In Orientalism he offers both historical and contemporary critiques of Western discursive practice, which renders the rival …
Diaspora, authenticity and the imagined past
Visitors' engagement and authenticity
Commerce, empire and faith in Safavid Iran
Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: to explore how commercial hospitality has contributed to the development of urban areas in relation to commerce, hospitality, religious and imperial patronage in early modern, Safavid Iran (c. seventeenth century). Second, to combine material culture research methods in an analytical framework for future use. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected during 27 site visits over three years to 14 …
The Absence of Ottoman, Islamic Europe in Edward W. Said’s Orientalism
Edward W. Said’s Orientalism has attained canonical status as the key study of the cultural politics of western representation of the East, specifically the imaginative geographies underwriting constructions such as the Middle East and the Islamic world. The Ottoman Empire overlapped both European and exteriorized Oriental space during much of the period that Said dealt with, yet while the existence of the empire is referred to in Said’s study, t…
Exhibiting the 'Orient
This paper examines the extent to which theory emerges in practice within the context of museum curatorship and the public discourses surrounding it. The theoretical context is the legacy of Edward W Said's canonical study, Orientalism and its call for 'Western' reflexivity in the politics of representation of the Islamic Near East. We argue that Said's study has, in its own right, engendered a field of professional academic discourse in the area…
Historicising consumption
This article explores “Orientalist” accounts of hospitality to identify historical antecedents for contemporary Western demand for hospitality and tourism products in the Middle East. Scenes of hospitality in the diaries of Richard Burton and Gertrude Bell are analysed in the context of the authors' historically locatable, subject positions. The paper finds that Orientalist expectations of hospitality form an image that is both culturally self-se…
Turkey, Tourism and Interpellated 'Westernness
That tourism's representation of places in terms of the clichéd and the banal is a means to overcome consumer uncertainty is surely an unproblematic observation. None the less it invites enquiry into those discourses circulating within the representing culture (the source of tourism demand) constitutive of the subject position that both reassures and is reassured. Turkey is frequently presented to potential consumers in a litany of familiar binar…
Sorrow and joy among Muslim women
This engaging ethnographic study is immediately useful in methodological terms for readers in the field of social anthropology. Yet its utility also extends to a potentially wider audience, such as this reviewer, from a cultural studies background, interested in the problematic representation of the supposed irreconcilability of 'Islamic culture' with 'modernity'. The book focuses upon the embodiment as opposed to the textuality of this discursiv…
The generous exclusion of Ottoman-Islamic Europe
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 membership is advocated as a sort of strategic supplement to a historical ontology of ‘Europe’ proceeding from a grand narrative of Latin Christendom – Reformation – Enlightenme…
Repackaging Orientalism
This article analyses representations of Egypt and Turkey in brochures produced by tour operators for the British outbound packaged tourism market. It suggests that two specific `phases' of Orientalist discourse are deployed in promotional materials on the two destinations. Turkey reiterates the discursive division of western `reason and modernity' from eastern `stasis and passivity' while Egypt re-enacts the material intervention of Europeans to…
Visitors' engagement and authenticity
Repackaging Orientalism
This article analyses representations of Egypt and Turkey in brochures produced by tour operators for the British outbound packaged tourism market. It suggests that two specific `phases' of Orientalist discourse are deployed in promotional materials on the two destinations. Turkey reiterates the discursive division of western `reason and modernity' from eastern `stasis and passivity' while Egypt re-enacts the material intervention of Europeans to…
Diaspora, authenticity and the imagined past
What pulls ancestral tourists ‘home’? An analysis of ancestral tourist motivations
Turkey, Tourism and Interpellated 'Westernness
That tourism's representation of places in terms of the clichéd and the banal is a means to overcome consumer uncertainty is surely an unproblematic observation. None the less it invites enquiry into those discourses circulating within the representing culture (the source of tourism demand) constitutive of the subject position that both reassures and is reassured. Turkey is frequently presented to potential consumers in a litany of familiar binar…
Orientalism, Balkanism and Europe's Ottoman heritage
The Absence of Ottoman, Islamic Europe in Edward W. Said’s Orientalism
Edward W. Said’s Orientalism has attained canonical status as the key study of the cultural politics of western representation of the East, specifically the imaginative geographies underwriting constructions such as the Middle East and the Islamic world. The Ottoman Empire overlapped both European and exteriorized Oriental space during much of the period that Said dealt with, yet while the existence of the empire is referred to in Said’s study, t…
Historicising consumption
This article explores “Orientalist” accounts of hospitality to identify historical antecedents for contemporary Western demand for hospitality and tourism products in the Middle East. Scenes of hospitality in the diaries of Richard Burton and Gertrude Bell are analysed in the context of the authors' historically locatable, subject positions. The paper finds that Orientalist expectations of hospitality form an image that is both culturally self-se…
The generous exclusion of Ottoman-Islamic Europe
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 membership is advocated as a sort of strategic supplement to a historical ontology of ‘Europe’ proceeding from a grand narrative of Latin Christendom – Reformation – Enlightenme…
Irreconcilability of heritage missions
This paper explores the tensions between access to heritage as a social good, its commercialization and the subsequent impact this has on service delivery. Drawing on the context of ancestral tourism, a growing heritage tourism segment requiring a high level of personalization, it develops arguments about the structural irreconcilability implicit in contemporary museum service delivery when staff resources do not meet the individualized demands o…
Exhibiting the 'Orient
This paper examines the extent to which theory emerges in practice within the context of museum curatorship and the public discourses surrounding it. The theoretical context is the legacy of Edward W Said's canonical study, Orientalism and its call for 'Western' reflexivity in the politics of representation of the Islamic Near East. We argue that Said's study has, in its own right, engendered a field of professional academic discourse in the area…
Repackaging Orientalism
This article analyses representations of Egypt and Turkey in brochures produced by tour operators for the British outbound packaged tourism market. It suggests that two specific `phases' of Orientalist discourse are deployed in promotional materials on the two destinations. Turkey reiterates the discursive division of western `reason and modernity' from eastern `stasis and passivity' while Egypt re-enacts the material intervention of Europeans to…
The generous exclusion of Ottoman-Islamic Europe
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 membership is advocated as a sort of strategic supplement to a historical ontology of ‘Europe’ proceeding from a grand narrative of Latin Christendom – Reformation – Enlightenme…
Sorrow and joy among Muslim women
This engaging ethnographic study is immediately useful in methodological terms for readers in the field of social anthropology. Yet its utility also extends to a potentially wider audience, such as this reviewer, from a cultural studies background, interested in the problematic representation of the supposed irreconcilability of 'Islamic culture' with 'modernity'. The book focuses upon the embodiment as opposed to the textuality of this discursiv…
Turkey, Tourism and Interpellated 'Westernness
That tourism's representation of places in terms of the clichéd and the banal is a means to overcome consumer uncertainty is surely an unproblematic observation. None the less it invites enquiry into those discourses circulating within the representing culture (the source of tourism demand) constitutive of the subject position that both reassures and is reassured. Turkey is frequently presented to potential consumers in a litany of familiar binar…
Commerce, empire and faith in Safavid Iran
Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: to explore how commercial hospitality has contributed to the development of urban areas in relation to commerce, hospitality, religious and imperial patronage in early modern, Safavid Iran (c. seventeenth century). Second, to combine material culture research methods in an analytical framework for future use. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected during 27 site visits over three years to 14 …
The Absence of Ottoman, Islamic Europe in Edward W. Said’s Orientalism
Edward W. Said’s Orientalism has attained canonical status as the key study of the cultural politics of western representation of the East, specifically the imaginative geographies underwriting constructions such as the Middle East and the Islamic world. The Ottoman Empire overlapped both European and exteriorized Oriental space during much of the period that Said dealt with, yet while the existence of the empire is referred to in Said’s study, t…
Exhibiting the 'Orient
This paper examines the extent to which theory emerges in practice within the context of museum curatorship and the public discourses surrounding it. The theoretical context is the legacy of Edward W Said's canonical study, Orientalism and its call for 'Western' reflexivity in the politics of representation of the Islamic Near East. We argue that Said's study has, in its own right, engendered a field of professional academic discourse in the area…
Historicising consumption
This article explores “Orientalist” accounts of hospitality to identify historical antecedents for contemporary Western demand for hospitality and tourism products in the Middle East. Scenes of hospitality in the diaries of Richard Burton and Gertrude Bell are analysed in the context of the authors' historically locatable, subject positions. The paper finds that Orientalist expectations of hospitality form an image that is both culturally self-se…
Visitors' engagement and authenticity
S aid, E dward
Edward Said (1935–2003) was a prominent Palestinian‐American cultural theorist of the late twentieth and early twenty‐first century. An academic specialist in comparative literature at Columbia University, he is perhaps best known for his book Orientalism and the associated works Culture and Imperialism and Covering Islam . In Orientalism he offers both historical and contemporary critiques of Western discursive practice, which renders the rival …
Diaspora, authenticity and the imagined past
What pulls ancestral tourists ‘home’? An analysis of ancestral tourist motivations
Orientalism, Balkanism and Europe's Ottoman heritage
Irreconcilability of heritage missions
This paper explores the tensions between access to heritage as a social good, its commercialization and the subsequent impact this has on service delivery. Drawing on the context of ancestral tourism, a growing heritage tourism segment requiring a high level of personalization, it develops arguments about the structural irreconcilability implicit in contemporary museum service delivery when staff resources do not meet the individualized demands o…
In but not fully of Europe’
The European Union (EU) and Council of Europe (CoE) are in a continuous struggle to identify the internal ‘Europeanness’ of their narratives, borders, boundaries, and regions. Since the 1980s, they introduced numerous cultural policies and heritage initiatives to identify and promote what their policy rhetoric calls ‘European identity’, a concept always used in the singular. These policies and heritage initiatives validate only certain aspects of…
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