This is a descriptive comparative quantitative content analysis of the con--struction of Islam and Muslims in 2006--2007 in four Swedish publicationsthe liberal newspaper Dagens Nyheter representing mainstream media, the Evangelical newspaper Dagen, the fundamentalist newspaper Världen idag representing the Christian right, and the journal SD--Kuriren, the official organ of the Sweden Democrats, a neo--nationalist party. The aim is to see where a chasm between those media which accept the presence of Muslims and Islam in Sweden, and those which do not, occurs. The results put the liberal Dagens Nyheter and the Evangelical Dagen on one side of the divide and the funda--mentalist Världen idag and the neo--nationalist SD--Kuriren on the other. Världen idag and SD--Kuriren tend to describe Muslims and Islam as threaten--ing, and 'our' elite as retreating. In these two media Muslims are consistently described as aggressive and the cause of social and political problems. Lastly, in both media, Muslims are related to negative behavior; good Muslim behavior is constantly disregarded, while bad behavior is assumed to reflect their true character. Världen idag also claims that Islam is incompatible with democracy. Liberal Dagens Nyheter and Evangelical Dagen avoid describing Muslims and Islam as a threat and more often seek constructive solutions to different problems. Dagens Nyheter moreover describes conflicts between Muslim and Christian actors in political, not religious, terms. Dagen also sees Muslims and Christians alike as victims of the forces of secularization.
In 2014, eight years prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian-backed separatists seized parts of the Ukrainian regions Luhansk and Donetsk. Shortly thereafter, thousands of Ukrainians voluntarily enrolled to various paramilitary battalions. Unlike the Right Sector's Volunteer Ukrainian Corps (RS VUC), almost all battalions were incorporated into Ukrainian official defence structures. Applying uncertainty-identity theory and based on interviews, observations, and documents, this study investigates the attractiveness of RS VUC prior to the 2022 war, motivating the fighters to join this organisation and to remain in it. The study found that fighters of RS VUC distrusted society, the wider population, and state authorities. RS VUC, with its high fighting morale, discipline, family-like relationships between fighters, as well as its clear ideology and boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’, were attractive to the fighters since its unambiguous group prototypes and high entitativity, reduced the fighters’ self-uncertainty regarding their social identity in an uncertain environment. The findings also revealed that the fighters’ choice to join RS VUC can be understood as a rational decision, since RS VUC's group entitativity provided the fighters with moral and emotional benefits, as well as maximised their chances of survival.
Dieses Buch bietet sowohl Studenten als auch Wissenschaftlern eine umfassende Einfiihrung in das Fachgebiet der bakteriellen Pathogenese. Die Ergebnisse der Anwendung moderner Teckniken beim Studium der komplexen Interaktionen zwischen dem Wirt und dem pathogenen Erreger haben das Verstandnis der molekularen Grundlagen von Infektionskrankheiten wesentlich gefordert. Die bisher verfiigbare Literatur prasentiert vor allem Sammlungen von Originalarbeiten und Tagungsbeitragen zu ausgewahlten Fragestellungen, wahrend in dem vorliegenden Band ein kompletter und gut verstandlicher Uberblick iiber die neuesten Ergebnisse auf dem Gebiet der medizinischen Mikrobiologie gegeben wird. Die Autoren haben der interdiszipliniiren Natur der bakteriellen Pathogenese Rechnung getragen und Erkenntnisse aus den Gebieten der pathogenen Mikrobiologie, Molekularbiologie, Immunologie, Humanphysiologie sowie Zellbiologie eingeschlossen.Die ersten acht Kapitel des Buches schaffen den notwendigen fachlichen Hintergrund, urn die sich anschlieaenden Themenbereiche uber ausgewiihlte Erkrankungen zu verstehen. In allen Kapiteln befinden sich farblich unterlegte Abschnitte, die praktische Beispiele, historische Anmerkungen und besondere klinische Aspekte enthalten oder auf kontrovers diskutierte Fragestellungen hinweisen. Die Schwerpunkte der einzelnen Themenkreise sind am Ende jedes Kapitels zusammengefaB6 und werden durch Literaturhinweise und anspruchsvolle Ubungsfragen erganzt, die besonders Studenten helfen sollen, die Hauptaspekte der Kapitel zu rekapitulieren. Die zahlreichen Abbildungen, Schemata und Tabellen und ein 8seitiges Register erleichtern die Ubersicht. Die klare und logische Prasentation des Stoffes macht das Buch zu einem wertvollen Lehr-und Nachschlagwerk sowohl fur Studenten als auch fur Wissenschaftler in Forschung und Lehre.K. STEINER (Jena)
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