Essays about: "headscarf"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word headscarf.

1. 1. Movement or revolution? : A case study of demonstrations in Iran 2017 and 2022

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Statsvetenskap

   Author : Kristina Florén; [2023]
   Keywords : Mahsa Amini; Rentier State Theory; Dey protests; Girls of Revolution Street; Demonstrations;

   Abstract : The following paper analyses the similarities and differences as well as the motives and strategies of the demonstrations in Iran which occurred in 2017/2018 and since September of 2022. The findings are discussed using the Rentier State Theory. A pure comparative analysis is not made, rather a case study with the demonstrations as two components. READ MORE

3. 2. 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]
   Keywords : ;

   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

4. 3. The Discrimination in Workplaces : A Critical Discourse Analysis of the European Court of Justice Judgment about the Islamic Veil Prohibition

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Umeå universitet/Juridiskt forum

   Author : Zahran Dabbagh; [2017]
   Keywords : Socio-legal; Intersectionality; Gender; Multiple Discrimination; Intersectional Discrimination; Neutrality; Objectivity; Justification;

   Abstract : The issue of the Islamic headscarf has been in the centre of the political debate whether it fits into the Western culture or not. Several member-states in the European Union have issued laws and regulations that impose restrictions on wearing the Islamic headscarf in the public sphere. READ MORE

5. 4. The re-entry of the Islamic headscarf in Turkish Parliament, A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Reactions

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

   Author : Anna Hagberg; [2014]
   Keywords : hijab; headscarf; Islamic headscarf; Turkey; orientalism; feminism; critical discourse analysis; CHP; AKP;

   Abstract : This thesis investigated the reactions to the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) recent lift of the ban against the Islamic headscarf in the Turkish Parliament. The reactions by the oppositional party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), were analysed through Norman Fairclough’s understanding of critical discourse analysis, which aims to illuminate unequal power relations created or recreated by the production of discursive practises, which is believed to ultimately affect social practises. READ MORE

6. 5. Human Rights and the Islamic Headscarf

   University essay from Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO)

   Author : Huanita Huzejrovic; [2013]
   Keywords : Religion; Islam; Islamic Headscarf; Human Rights; France; United Kingdom; Gender Equality;

   Abstract : In 2004 a law banning all religious affiliation in public schools in France came into force. This started a heavy debate in the whole of Europe on whether this law is a violation of human rights law on the basis on freedom of religion and the freedom to manifest his/hers religion or belief in worship. READ MORE