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  1. 1. “I Want to Tell You a Story”: Exploring the Role of Narratives in Documenting Sexual Violence During the Holocaust : A Study of Survivor Testimonies from the Warsaw and Łódź Ghettos

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen; Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Matylda Jonas-Kowalik; [2023]
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    Abstract : This qualitative research study aims to provide an in-depth analysis of the narratives  surrounding the experience of sexual violence during the Holocaust, focusing on the localized context of the Warsaw and Łódź ghettos and their immediate surroundings. The main objectives of this research are to examine how Holocaust survivors recount experiences of sexual violence in video testimonies and investigate the scope of sexual  violence in the localized context by analyzing different perpetrator groups and the  power relations that enabled sexual violence in the ghettos and in hiding. READ MORE

  3. 2. Agency in the Warsaw Ghetto : An Intersectional Analysis of the Daily Life, Survival, and Death of Elderly Jews

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Janika Raisch; [2022]
    Keywords : Holocaust; Genocide; Warsaw ghetto; Second World War; Nazi; Nazis; Poland; Warsaw; Jews; Polish Jews; Ghettoisation; Ghettoization; Ghetto; Ghettos; Jewish council; Jewish Self-Help; Elderly; Elderly Jews; Old age; Intersectionality; Agency;

    Abstract : In Holocaust research, the study of elderly Jews in Nazi German ghettos remains a blind spot. This thesis begins to fill the research gap by exploring the everyday life of elderly Jews and their agency under the structural conditions of the Warsaw ghetto. READ MORE

  4. 3. A Matter of Security? : A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Underlying Security Discourse in the Danish Ghetto Plan

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Seda Emine Agzigüzel; [2021]
    Keywords : securitization; immigration; discrimination; integration; minorities; ghettos; Denmark;

    Abstract : This study investigates the political discourse in the Danish government’s ‘Ghetto Plan’ of 2018 in order to reveal a securitization dimension in relation to Danish ghettos and non-Western immigrants. There has not been conducted much academic research concerning the Danish ghetto initiatives, and studies on the ‘Danish Ghetto Plan’ of 2018 remain pretty absent. READ MORE

  5. 4. Deconstructing the (E)state - An interpretive content analysis of the Danish government’s 2018 ‘ghetto-initiative’

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Alma Pripp; [2021]
    Keywords : Architecture; Building environment; Denmark; Ghetto-initiative; Human rights; Integration; Right to housing; Social Housing; Social engineering; Spatiality; Trialectic of space; Arts and Architecture; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis seeks to study the connection between space, architecture, city planning, policy and human rights. The case studied is the so-called Danish ‘ghetto-initiative’, focusing on the government’s 2018-plan “A Denmark Without Parallel Societies – No Ghettos By 2030”. READ MORE

  6. 5. Understanding the Emotional Geographies of Migrant Women in Copenhagen using Photo Elicitation

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Yasmin Reuben Adler Thomsen; [2021]
    Keywords : migrant women; everyday practices; Copenhagen; intersectionality; photo elicitation; feminist and emotional geography;

    Abstract : With a tense political landscape with stigmatizing discourse about migrants and so-called migrant ghettos, alongside continuous indications of gender imbalances in public spaces in Copenhagen, a focus on migrant women was chosen. The thesis takes its outset in a photo project conducted in Kringlebakken, an integration house in Copenhagen. READ MORE