Essays about: "Dehumanization"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 32 essays containing the word Dehumanization.

1. 21. The Role of the Bourgmestres during the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

   Author : Rafiki Ubald; [2018]
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   Abstract :  In this thesis I use qualitative comparative methods to analyze The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) court transcripts related to bourgmestres who were in office at the time of the genocide against the Tutsi in 1994. I argue that a few bourgmestres resisted the genocide, others engaged in the genocide after a short-lived resistance, while a larger number totally engaged in the genocide. READ MORE

3. 22. The Devils of History : Understanding Mass-violence Through the Thinking of Horkheimer and Adorno – The Case of Cambodia 1975-1979

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

   Author : Lior Becker; [2016]
   Keywords : genocide; cambodia; khmer; khmer rouge; pol pot; frankfurt school; dialectics; adorno; horkheimer; folkmord;

   Abstract : Why does mass-violence happen at all? This paper takes the first steps to establish a model to answer this question and explain extreme mass-violence as a phenomenon. This paper seeks to fill a gap in the field of research, in which models exist to explain the phenomenon of violence, with cases of genocide being seen as problems or exceptions, and as such researched as individual cases rather than as part of a wider phenomenon. READ MORE

4. 23. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words : A Study of the Visual Representation of Syrian Refugees in Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Author : Shabnam Nasrollahi; [2016]
   Keywords : Visual representation; Syrian Refugee Crisis; Framing; Agenda setting; Stereotypes; Images; Dehumanization; Identical Victim effect; Othering;

   Abstract : The purpose of this research paper is to examine how Syrian refugees are visually represented in two of the largest newspapers in Sweden: Dagens Nyheter (Today’s news) and Svenska Dagbladet (The Swedish daily paper). Their choice of images on the Syrian refugee crisis will be analysed, to see what sort of message they send by using those specific images. READ MORE

5. 24. The Army of God : An examination of religiously motivated violence from a psychology of religion perspective.

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Religionspsykologi

   Author : Sacharias Wirén; [2016]
   Keywords : Religiously motivated violence; social identity; sacred values; meaning-system; anti-abortion; religious fundamentalism; selective moral disengagement; staircase to terrorism;

   Abstract : The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine psychological processes that can contribute to religiously motivated violence from a psychology of religion perspective in relation to the collective meaning-system of the Christian militant anti-abortion movement the Army of God. The study applied a single-case design and the data was collected through semi-structured interviews with 3 prominent figures within Army of God, as well as through 43 qualitative documents and 4 autobiographical books. READ MORE

6. 25. "I don't belong anywhere. That's the problem." : (In)Between ethnicities, masculinities, and sexualities in Latino American coming-of-age novels.

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

   Author : Fanny Pérez Aronsson; [2015]
   Keywords : masculinity; boyhood; sexuality; ethnicity; Latino American; in betweenness; discipline; homosociality; identity;

   Abstract : The aim of this study has been to examine representations of Latino boys and young men in Latino American coming of age novels. Two concepts have been central to the study: positions of (in)betweenness and the ability to "fall in line" with norms and expectations. Three overarching themes are been explored in relation to masculinity. READ MORE