Borders of Europe

Fantasies of identity in the enlargement debate on Turkey

Bibliographic Data

ID7933735
AuthorsBülent Küçük (0000-0002-9307-7191, Sabancı Üniversitesi, corresponding author), Bülent Küçük Bülent Küçük
Year2009
Volume41
Pages89-115
Publication date2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Perspectives on Turkey (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0896-6346 • E-ISSN: 1305-3299
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0896634600005380
OpenAlexW2185742340
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited22

The European public debate on Turkey's EU accession either emphasizes Turkey's political (in)competence for EU membership, or marks its cultural difference. Based on the discourse analysis of this debate in the German mass media, this paper questions the dominant European perspective, by placing emphasis on how and where the symbolic borders of an imagined Europe become visible. I will argue that the debate surrounding Turkey's accession to the EU reveals an ambivalent discursive process as it places the construction of the self-definition of Europe at the frontier of its Turkish-Islamic “Other

Accession · Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Competence (human resources · Economics · European union · Frontier · German · Identity (music · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resizing · Sociology · Turkish · European Union Policy and Governance · History · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Turkey's Politics and Society

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