Domesticating fears and fantasies of ‘the East’: integrating the Ottoman legacy within European heritage

摘要: ABSTRACT‘Europe’ has no fixed geographical, historical, religious or cultural boundaries. Claims for the existence of European civilization as a discrete construct are continually made yet dissolve on close scrutiny. Here, we examine these claims at one grandest points existential crisis and belonging Europe, relationship with ‘Other within’: Turkey, Balkans Ottoman heritage in Europe. Through hybrid semiotic Foucauldian analysis catalogues eight high-profile exhibitions United Kingdom, Belgium Portugal argue that an unsettled discursive struggle is play, which ‘Europe’ articulates ‘reconciliation’ profound civilizational difference while another, Ottoman, stakes claim right intrinsic component what it means to be contemporary context. We attempt trace role museum marketing perennial accommodation/exclusion Empire diversity Eu...