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Fienden Israel : en komparativ studie om fiendebilder och identitet i Hamas och Fatahs politiska dokument

Aldridge, Alice LU (2014) MRSK30 20141
Human Rights Studies
Abstract (Swedish)
This thesis first and foremost analyzes and compares Hamas and Fatah's political documents from 2005 and 2009 respectively, and how Israel is portrayed as the enemy in these documents. The theoretical framework focuses on enemy images, but also includes concepts such as national identity, intractable conflicts, intergroup relations and the Other. These concepts are necessary to broaden my analysis and capture the complexity of the situation I am analyzing. Enemy images emerges through psychological processes, specific social and political contexts and intergroup relations and are related to phenomenons such as negative stereotypes, predjudice and discrimination which can have devastating consequences. Both Fatah and Hamas have developed... (More)
This thesis first and foremost analyzes and compares Hamas and Fatah's political documents from 2005 and 2009 respectively, and how Israel is portrayed as the enemy in these documents. The theoretical framework focuses on enemy images, but also includes concepts such as national identity, intractable conflicts, intergroup relations and the Other. These concepts are necessary to broaden my analysis and capture the complexity of the situation I am analyzing. Enemy images emerges through psychological processes, specific social and political contexts and intergroup relations and are related to phenomenons such as negative stereotypes, predjudice and discrimination which can have devastating consequences. Both Fatah and Hamas have developed since there inception and are now, politically, not that far apart. The image of Israel as the enemy is clear in both the organizations documents and similar language is used when it comes to the palestinian people and the conflict. The comparison is interesting since the media image of Hamas as a terrorist organization and Fatah (as part of the PLO) as a legitimate represantative for the Palestinian people is clearly simplified. It might not be incorrect but when their more modern documents are compared, the difference between them are not very striking. (Less)
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author
Aldridge, Alice LU
supervisor
organization
course
MRSK30 20141
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Fatah, enemy images, identity, conflict
language
Swedish
id
4648249
date added to LUP
2014-10-07 10:46:49
date last changed
2014-10-07 10:46:49
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  abstract     = {{This thesis first and foremost analyzes and compares Hamas and Fatah's political documents from 2005 and 2009 respectively, and how Israel is portrayed as the enemy in these documents. The theoretical framework focuses on enemy images, but also includes concepts such as national identity, intractable conflicts, intergroup relations and the Other. These concepts are necessary to broaden my analysis and capture the complexity of the situation I am analyzing. Enemy images emerges through psychological processes, specific social and political contexts and intergroup relations and are related to phenomenons such as negative stereotypes, predjudice and discrimination which can have devastating consequences. Both Fatah and Hamas have developed since there inception and are now, politically, not that far apart. The image of Israel as the enemy is clear in both the organizations documents and similar language is used when it comes to the palestinian people and the conflict. The comparison is interesting since the media image of Hamas as a terrorist organization and Fatah (as part of the PLO) as a legitimate represantative for the Palestinian people is clearly simplified. It might not be incorrect but when their more modern documents are compared, the difference between them are not very striking.}},
  author       = {{Aldridge, Alice}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Fienden Israel : en komparativ studie om fiendebilder och identitet i Hamas och Fatahs politiska dokument}},
  year         = {{2014}},
}