Berättelser om Ukraina
(2015) STVM25 20151Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- The conflict in Ukraine is not only a conflict in a strictly traditional or material sense, in terms of a quest for territory or over military power. Rather, it is a conflict where the battlefield is located in the United Nations Security Council, and the battle is a verbal war between ambassadors and diplomats about conflicting narratives and how the conflict should be defined. In this thesis, a post-structural understanding of language and power is emphasized and a narrative analysis is conducted of the material, which consists of verbatim protocols from meetings in the chamber of the UN Security Council. The theoretical and analytical framework consists of the concepts of narrative, images of threat, (in)security, representations of... (More)
- The conflict in Ukraine is not only a conflict in a strictly traditional or material sense, in terms of a quest for territory or over military power. Rather, it is a conflict where the battlefield is located in the United Nations Security Council, and the battle is a verbal war between ambassadors and diplomats about conflicting narratives and how the conflict should be defined. In this thesis, a post-structural understanding of language and power is emphasized and a narrative analysis is conducted of the material, which consists of verbatim protocols from meetings in the chamber of the UN Security Council. The theoretical and analytical framework consists of the concepts of narrative, images of threat, (in)security, representations of identity and othering. The narrative analysis depicts a story about a humanitarian crisis, and one of military aggression, which sets out in the past and in the present, as well as in the future. (Less)
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- author
- Andersson, Sofia LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVM25 20151
- year
- 2015
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- official discourse, Russia, Ukraine, othering, identity, images of threath, (in)security, narrative
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 7758130
- date added to LUP
- 2015-09-09 17:37:57
- date last changed
- 2015-09-09 17:37:57
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