Sökning: "female terrorists"

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1. 1. Förövare eller offer, eller både och? : Medias porträttering av Boko Harams kvinnliga terrorister

   Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Julia Linnér; [2023]
   Nyckelord :;

   Sammanfattning : Boko Haram, a Nigerian terrorist group, has been responsible for a number of attacks and suicide bombings during the past decade. This study compares, on a small scale, how Boko Haram's female militants are portrayed in Western versus local media. LÄS MER

3. 2. Terrorist by Association : How the Swedish women who joined IS were portrayed in the Swedish media

   Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Lina Möllebo; [2022]
   Nyckelord :IS; ISIS; women; terrorism; IS-women; media narratives;

   Sammanfattning : In 2014 when the international terrorist group the Islamic State (IS) declared a caliphate in Iraq and Syria, more than 40,000 people travelled to join the terrorist group. According to the available data between 10-13% were women but the real number is assumed to be substantially higher. LÄS MER

4. 3. Perceiving Terrorism: A survey experiment about how Swedish students define terrorism based on the perpetrator’s ethnicity

   Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Författare :Niklas von Mentzer Marcev; [2019-02-20]
   Nyckelord :;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to analyze how students perceive the concept of terrorism based on the ethnicity ascribed to the perpetrator. Studies conducted in the US have shown that the public defines political violence differently depending on the language used to describe the event, white perpetrators are more often called mass shooters while perpetrators of other ethnicities are more frequently called terrorists. LÄS MER

5. 4. The Political Effect of Female Terrorists: Do women become empowered when entering male dominated spheres?

   Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Moa Peldán Carlsson; [2018]
   Nyckelord :Female Empowerment; Rebel Movements; Representation; Insurgency; Empowerment Mimicry; Female Rebels; Gender Equality;

   Sammanfattning : This quantitative study aims to investigate mechanisms for female empowerment in the context of conflict by examining whether a female entry into armed rebel, insurgent and terrorist movements can lead to an increase of women represented in politics. Three different hypotheses for the relationship are set: that the effect is positive, that the effect is negative and that there is no effect at all. LÄS MER

7. 5. Female Terrorists : A comparative four case study

   Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Författare :Helena Sundlöf; [2017]
   Nyckelord :Female terrorism; motives; terrorist profiling; terrorism;

   Sammanfattning : The usage of women in terrorist bombings have increased in the past years due to security and government's lack of scrutiny of security checks, women have the advantage of slipping through the security nets and perform tasks which have been performed by men. The security put forward by governments and other security organizations have always been focused on the aspect that a man would perform a terrorist attack, the likelihood of a woman performing the task has been very low and now, governments and security details have been caught off guard as there is an increase of women carrying out an attack. LÄS MER