Demarcating political frontiers in Turkey :

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" Demarcating political frontiers in Turkey : "
Alpan, Basak

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Record Number	:	1097756
Doc. No	:	TLets523293
Main Entry	:	Alpan, Basak
Title & Author	:	Demarcating political frontiers in Turkey :\ Alpan, Basak
College	:	University of Birmingham
Date	:	2010
student score	:	2010
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Abstract	:	In this study, departing from a more general concern with understanding how political frontiers are demarcated in Turkish politics, I aim to show how ‘Europe’ contributed to such a process of constructing political frontiers during the 1999-2008 period. Rather than looking at the debates on ‘Europe’ within the Turkish political landscape through a pro- vs. anti- Europe bifurcation, I attempt to see the discourses through the lens of ‘hegemony’. By using the Laclau- Mouffean discourse analysis, starting from 1999, I argue that discourses on ‘Europe’ were able to hegemonise Turkish political debates and thereby demarcate the political frontiers that constituted that debate which started to change when discourses began to be substituted by different antagonisms, political frontiers and therefore modes of sustaining hegemony.
Subject	:	JN Political institutions (Europe)
Added Entry	:	University of Birmingham