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Systermord, pysikiskt störd eller hedersmord?

Persson, Emilia LU (2013) MRSG20 20122
Human Rights Studies
Abstract
Media and news articles can either be representative or just a fictional story to attract buyers.
My research is based on patterns of how different ethnic groups, religion and cultures are sometimes being portrayed by the media. Two instances that I have researched, includes brothers murdering their sisters. The accused are of different cultures, Swedish and Kurdish with an Iraqi heritage. I have used discourse analysis to analyze how media represents and explains the difference in the violence which had an outcome of murder. The Swedish perpetrators actions are explained with bad social environment and mental illness. Whereas, the non-Swedish perpetrators actions are explained with a foreign religion and strong cultural bounds. This... (More)
Media and news articles can either be representative or just a fictional story to attract buyers.
My research is based on patterns of how different ethnic groups, religion and cultures are sometimes being portrayed by the media. Two instances that I have researched, includes brothers murdering their sisters. The accused are of different cultures, Swedish and Kurdish with an Iraqi heritage. I have used discourse analysis to analyze how media represents and explains the difference in the violence which had an outcome of murder. The Swedish perpetrators actions are explained with bad social environment and mental illness. Whereas, the non-Swedish perpetrators actions are explained with a foreign religion and strong cultural bounds. This brings a debate about honor-related violence which puts a shadow on the violence against women that occurs ever so often.
Media makes the cases an event and puts a lot more background into the story about the foreign perpetrator.
Keywords: Culture, mentally illness, social environment, murder,
honor killings. (Less)
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author
Persson, Emilia LU
supervisor
organization
course
MRSG20 20122
year
type
L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
subject
keywords
honor killings, murder, social environment, Culture, mentally illness, human rights, mänskliga rättigheter
language
Swedish
id
3358791
date added to LUP
2013-02-26 11:08:32
date last changed
2014-09-04 08:27:39
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  abstract     = {{Media and news articles can either be representative or just a fictional story to attract buyers. 
My research is based on patterns of how different ethnic groups, religion and cultures are sometimes being portrayed by the media. Two instances that I have researched, includes brothers murdering their sisters. The accused are of different cultures, Swedish and Kurdish with an Iraqi heritage. I have used discourse analysis to analyze how media represents and explains the difference in the violence which had an outcome of murder. The Swedish perpetrators actions are explained with bad social environment and mental illness. Whereas, the non-Swedish perpetrators actions are explained with a foreign religion and strong cultural bounds. This brings a debate about honor-related violence which puts a shadow on the violence against women that occurs ever so often.
Media makes the cases an event and puts a lot more background into the story about the foreign perpetrator. 
Keywords: Culture, mentally illness, social environment, murder, 
honor killings.}},
  author       = {{Persson, Emilia}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Systermord, pysikiskt störd eller hedersmord?}},
  year         = {{2013}},
}