Sökning: "War on Terror"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 17 avhandlingar innehållade orden War on Terror.

  1. 1. From Frontline to Homefront : The Global Homeland in Contemporary U.S. War Fiction

    Författare :Kristen Rau; David Watson; Danuta Fjellestad; Caren Irr; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Global Homeland; derealized warfare; direct warfare; military-civilian relations; sanitization of warfare; state fantasy; War on Terror; War on Terror fiction; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : Criticized for providing a simplified depiction of a post-9/11 United States, contemporary American “War on Terror” fiction has been largely neglected by critical discourse. In this dissertation, I argue that this fiction offers a vital engagement with how the War on Terror is waged, and how the fantasies and policies of the Global Homeland inform it. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Sjöfart på stormigt hav : Sjömannen och Svensk Sjöfarts tidning inför den nazistiska utmaningen 1932-1945

    Författare :Martin Estvall; Lars Olsson; Lars M Andersson; Håkan Blomqvist; Växjö universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; 20th century; neutrality; economic history; shipping history; World War II; Swedish trade; anti-Semitism; the Holocaust; 1933-1945; social categorisation; Nazism; nationalism; national-socialism; antifascism; anti-Nazism; resistance; racism; class; working-class movement; Sjömannen; Svensk Sjöfarts Tidning; Sjöfolksförbundet; Sveriges Redareförening; 1900-talet; neutralitet; ekonomisk historia; sjöfartshistoria; andra världskriget; Förintelsen; antisemitism; svensk handel; 1933-1945; antinazism; motstånd; rasism; klass; History; Historia; Historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to discuss German Nazism and Nazi Germany from the point of view of two specific representatives, namely, labour and capital. This has been facilitated by analysing the content of the Swedish Seamen’s Union’s newspaper, The Seafarer [Sjömannen] and its union counterpart, the Swedish Shipowners Association’s periodical, Scandinavian Shipping Gazette [Svensk Sjöfarts Tidning], from November 1932 up to and including 1945. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Migration and Perceptions of War : Simultaneous Surveys in Countries of Origin and Settlement

    Författare :Jonathan Hall; Ashok Swain; Cochrane Feargal; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; civil war; migration; refugees; gastarbeiter; family reunification; exile; trauma; coping; nostalgia; conservation of resources; terror management theory; social identity complexity; assimilation; acculturation; surveys; Peace and Conflict Research; Freds- och konfliktforskning;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation contributes to post-war public opinion research by examining the perceptions of migrants – the gastarbeiter, the refugee, the family reunited after war – and the local population in comparative perspective. Existing surveys of post-war populations are typically conducted in a single country affected by war. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Utopias of Nation : Local Mass Killing in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1941-42

    Författare :Tomislav Dulic; Jan Lindegren; Kjell Magnusson; Milan Ristović; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; political history; social history; Bosnia and Herzegovina; World War II; slavic studies; genocide; mass killing; twentieth century; terror; demographics; Yugoslavia; Chetniks; Ustasha; Historia; History subjects; Historieämnen; Historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : This study analyses the mechanisms of local mass violence perpetrated by the Croatian fascist Ustasha organisation and the Serbian nationalist Chetniks in Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1941–42. A theoretical and methodological model has been devised, that is based on an investigation the three “dimensions” of mass killing, namely intent, systematics and magnitude. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism : Identity constructions in Arab and Western news media

    Författare :Mahitab Ezz El Din; Stig-Arne Nohrstedt; Leonor Camauër; Åsa Kroon; Göran Eriksson; Peter Hervik; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Orientalism; Occidentalism; Arab; West; Othering; identity; media constructions; tolerance; multiculturalism; xenophobia; Peace Journalism; Global War on Terror; Media and Communication Studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Journalistik; Medievetenskap och journalistik; Media and Communication Science;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines how the media construct the identities of the Other by creating various ‘us’ versus ‘them’ positions (Othering) when covering non-violence-based intercultural conflicts in Arab and Western news media. Othering in this study is understood as an umbrella concept that in general terms refers to the discursive process of constructing and positioning the Self and the Other into separate identities of an ‘us’ and a ‘them. LÄS MER