Essays about: "Yousor Akrawi"

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  1. 1. Conditional Freedom: Identifying How Orientalism Informs Structural and Cultural Violence Towards Muslim Women in Turkey

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

    Author : Yousor Akrawi; [2019]
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    Abstract : This thesis aims to point out the ways in which Muslim women who wear the headscarf are subject to cultural and structural violence, and to discuss how that violence is informed by Orientalism. The study answers the following question: How does Orientalism inform structural and cultural violence against the wearing of the headscarf by Muslim women in Turkey? The theoretical framework applied to this study explores Johan Galtung’s different forms of violence: structural and cultural violence. READ MORE