Sökning: "Kurdish female fighters"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 uppsatser innehållade orden Kurdish female fighters.
1. PERFORMING NEW FEMININITIES : Representations of YPJ female Kurdish fighters in the British news and in pro-Kurdish online media platforms.
Magister-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)Sammanfattning : The Syrian civil war has been one of the most complex armed confrontations in modern era. In thiscontext, the military participation of Kurdish female fighters of the YPJ Units has received globalmedia coverage. LÄS MER
2. 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 institutionenSammanfattning : 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. Kurdish female fighters versus ISIS - a textual and image analysis
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4. 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/JournalistikSammanfattning : 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
5. Victims, Exotic Warriors or Heroines? Framing the motivations of Kurdish female fighters in the war against Islamic State
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskapSammanfattning : This thesis focuses on investigating how the three British newspapers, The Guardian, The Telegraph and the BBC News, frame the motivations of the Kurdish female fighters joining armed forces in the war against Islamic State. It also explores, what are the reasons behind these portrayals and in what ways Kurdish female fighters challenge the existing discourse of Middle Eastern women. LÄS MER