Le, Thi Kim Chi Anika (2024) The Construction of National Identity in a State without Nation. Master thesis, Cultural Geography (CG).
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Abstract
The aim of this research is to look how the national identity of Kurdistan is discursively constructed on a government tourism website, identify what strategies may be employed for the national identities, and if the tourism industry is of importance in constructing the national identity. By using the framework of Wodak (2009) it was possible to employ a Critical Discourse Analysis to find how the Kurdish national identity is constructed. This research has contributed to the literature of how national identities are constructed, with a focus on nations without state and a perspective of tourism. This study has found that the main use of tourism and the tourism website of the Kurdish government is to construct a national identity for tourism purposes, which in turn can help advance the legitimacy of existence of Kurdistan as a state. In future research, it is recommended to use different sources in which Kurdish identity is described in order to see how context influences the framing of the Kurdish identity
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Name supervisor: | Rosenbergova, S. |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jun 2024 09:07 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jun 2024 09:07 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/407 |
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