Sökning: "Kobane"

Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade ordet Kobane.

1. 1. Feminists, Freedom Fighters and Daughters - A Discourse Analysis of the United States Media’s Portrayal of the Kurdish Female Fighters in Syria

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Sophie Hogevall; [2020]
   Nyckelord :Discourse analysis; Gender; Islamic State; Kurdish female fighters; Media framing; Syria; YPJ; Law and Political Science;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to examine how the US media has portrayed the Kurdish female fighters in Syria. Since the battle of Kobane the fighters of the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) have been sensationalised and received immense attention in western news media. LÄS MER

3. 2. Framing Kurdish Female Fighters : A qualitative content analysis of media representations of female fighters of Kobane in Arabic, Kurdish and Russian Media

   Magister-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Journalistik

   Författare :Fereshteh Mohammadi; [2019]
   Nyckelord :Kurdish female fighters; Kobane; IS; Arabic media; Kurdish media; Russian media; media framing; orientalism; feminist theory on militarization and war; war and peace journalism theory;

   Sammanfattning : With the uprising of the Arab Spring in Syria in 2011, a myriad of news articles covering Syrian people' protests were published in the international media. However, it was after the Islamic State’s (IS) attacks on Syria and accordingly, Rojava region ​– the ​Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, de facto Autonomous Region ​– in 2014, that the region became the attention center of the international media. LÄS MER