Essays about: "kyrgyzstan"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 27 essays containing the word kyrgyzstan.

  1. 1. Violence at the border: Exploring portrayals of violence in news articles reporting the border conflicts between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutet för Rysslands- och Eurasienstudier; Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Susanna Mäkelä; [2023]
    Keywords : Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; border conflict; slow violence; news media;

    Abstract : Using Nixon’s (2011) conceptualisation of slow violence, this study explores how violence is portrayed in English-language news articles reporting the Kyrgyz-Tajik border conflicts in April 2021 and September 2022. This study aims to discover the ways in which violence is communicated to English-speaking audiences, and, in a larger context, it contributes to the understanding of violence produced in border conflicts. READ MORE

  3. 2. Women in Kyrgyz Music Videos : A Social Semiotic Analysis of Women’s Representation in Kyrgyz Visual Media

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutet för Rysslands- och Eurasienstudier; Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Charlotte Geib; [2023]
    Keywords : Kyrgyzstan; Music Video; Gender; Cultural Representation; Social Semiotics; Violence against Women;

    Abstract : This master thesis study examines Kyrgyz-language music videos to explore the visual representation of women, including women experiencing gender-based violence. It addresses a gap in the literature regarding women in Kyrgyz music videos and argues that media communicates context-specific meaning about gendered cultural realities. READ MORE

  4. 3. Is marriage everything? Understanding shame and culture through bridal kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Petricia Simone Veile Hansen; [2022]
    Keywords : bride kidnapping; shame-anxiety; victimisation; local; global; motherhood; ala Kachuu; Kyrgyzstan; life-history; qualitative research; ethnography; human rights.; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : 'Can it ever be okay to kidnap a wife?’ This thesis combined fieldwork observations with narrative interviews from twenty-two kidnapped women from an ethnographic four- month research stay in Kyrgyzstan. From a starting point, the thesis took a normative framework, understanding that everyone has the right to equal rights. READ MORE

  5. 4. Marketing of Community-Based Tourism : A case study of Central Asia

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik

    Author : Fiona Gansauer; [2021]
    Keywords : Stakeholder Theory; Community-Based Tourism CBT ; Distribution Channels; Marketing; Central Asia; Uzbekistan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; cross-national analysis;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to fill the research gap between marketing and community-based tourism, with using the Stakeholder Theory as intermediary. For this purpose, it is analyzed how the Stakeholder Theory can contribute to improve the marketing of community-based tourism. READ MORE

  6. 5. Mapping the Mismatch - Bride Abduction in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan and the Disconnect Between Local Realities and Aid Organization Framing

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Charlotte Caroline Sophie Geib; [2021]
    Keywords : bride abduction; Kyrgyzstan; international aid organizations; framing; complexity; decoupling; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Bride abduction in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan is a human rights and gender equality issue that continues to exist despite national and international efforts to end it. This bachelor thesis explores Kyrgyz bride abduction as a mismatch or disconnect between local realities and top- down aid practice. READ MORE