Constructions of European Identity: Debates and Discourses on Turkey and the EU

by Senem Aydın-Düzgit and Senem Ayd?n-Duzgit

Book Overview

This book examines EU discourses on Turkey in the European Commission, European Parliament and three EU member states (France, Germany and Britain), to reveal the discursive construction of European identity through EU representations of Turkey. Based on a poststructuralist framework that conceptualizes identity as discursively constructed through difference, the book applies Critical Discourse Analysis to the analysis of texts and argues that there...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349345571
• ISBN13: 9781349345571
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"