Bulletin n. 3/2008
February 2009
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Bischof Karin, Oberhuber Florian, Stögner Karin
    Geschlecht und Religion im Diskurs um den EU-Beitritt der Türkei - eine vergleichende Perspektive auf Frankreich und Österreich
    in Oesterreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft , 2008/4 ,  2008 ,  419-434
    Gender and Religion in the Discourse on the EU-Accession of Turkey - A Comparative View on France and Austria This article, based on the results of a comparative empirical media analysis in Austria and France, focuses on the conjunctions of gender and religion/secularity in the discourse on Turkey's accession to the EU. Particular emphasis is put on specific constructions of the "own" and the "other", and on gender-specific and religious connotations. Thereby, contrasting national narratives as well as cross-national topoi can be depicted. Thus, in France, the constructions of Turkey and the debates on its accession to the EU are often connected with universalist conceptions of a "mission civilisatrice", whereas in Austria specific scenarios of threat are crucial, in which historical cleavages are reactivated. With regard to cross-national strategies of othering and alterity construction, diverse moments of orientalism become apparent among which the topos of "reality and appearance" and the topos of "opening Turkey" are examined in this article.
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