Essays about: "Katharina Kehl"

Found 1 essay containing the words Katharina Kehl.

  1. 1. Minority Participation in the Public Sphere – A Critical Analysis of Claim-Making on Muslim Rights and Islam in Swedish News Media

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Katharina Kehl; [2014]
    Keywords : minority participation; Muslim minority rights; Islam in Europe; public sphere; political claims analysis; politics of recognition; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : As Muslim communities have become more permanently established in Western European societies, debates around the public practice of Islam in these societies have become more prevalent, while the “global war on terror” rhetoric has aided the construction of Muslim minorities into “Others” along lines of religious and cultural differences. Based on theories of minority participation in the public sphere as part of the political process of contestation over group rights in complex pluralistic political communities, this thesis investigates the debate around Muslim rights and Islam in Sweden during the years 1999 – 2008 as reported by the five largest Swedish daily newspapers. READ MORE