The conflict between Israel and Palestine is once again a current topic all over the world in the aftermath of the attacks on October 7, 2023. The need to study the history of the region and of its peoples is therefore critical as a deeper understanding of it will lead to the ability to discuss possible outcomes of their future. The ability, historical consciousness, is clearly stated in the Swedish upper secondary history curriculum, and all history teaching is to be aimed towards developing it. Further, as textbooks dominate Swedish history education, we aim to shed light on how these writings deal with the Israel and Palestine conflict from a historical perspective. We are specifically interested in what narratives are portrayed in these textbooks. To do this, we have used a qualitative approach with a theoretical starting point provided by historical philosophers such as Jörn Rüsen, David Carr and Paul Ricœur. It is their combined definition of what makes a narrative, or a story, that we have based our analysis on. Further, we have identified the structures of the narratives and the function of the characters in them in order to define what meaning is given to the conflict. Indeed, we discovered that the conflict is given meaning through three main themes that are recurring in Swedish history textbooks. We have named these The story about the intractable conflict, The story about liberation from the west, and The story about east and west.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-67731 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Andelic, Johannes, Eriksson, Albin |
| Publisher | Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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