Att konstruera en flygplats – en diskursanalys av Karlstad Airport som politisk fråga
(2017) STVK02 20171Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Aeromobility and sustainability are current political issues which given available technology today are incompatible. This study aims to through a discourse analysis critically examine how Karlstad Airport as an example of this is constructed as a political matter. Drawing on Maarten Hajers social-interactive discourse analysis, which is operationalised using Carol Bacchis analytical framework the result is structured through four discourses on mobility. The results show how these discourses, called mobility as a right-discourse, technocratic discourse, speedy connectivity-discourse and sustainable mobility-discourse, construct different political problems which can be solved by the local airport and how this process also show different... (More)
- Aeromobility and sustainability are current political issues which given available technology today are incompatible. This study aims to through a discourse analysis critically examine how Karlstad Airport as an example of this is constructed as a political matter. Drawing on Maarten Hajers social-interactive discourse analysis, which is operationalised using Carol Bacchis analytical framework the result is structured through four discourses on mobility. The results show how these discourses, called mobility as a right-discourse, technocratic discourse, speedy connectivity-discourse and sustainable mobility-discourse, construct different political problems which can be solved by the local airport and how this process also show different actors gain legitimacy as political subjects. Hajer’s discourse-analytical terms storylines and discourse coalitions are used to show how these different discourses can co-exist and produce policy despite their different understandings of the airport. The study finds that the mobility as a rightdiscourse, technocratic discourse and speedy connectivity-discourse have been dominant in constructing the airport as a political issue, while the sustainable mobility-discourse has been silenced. However a potential shift is suggested in 2016, when the speedy connectivity discourse suffers a backlash and the sustainable mobility discourse begins to challenge the current understanding of Karlstad Airport as a political issue. (Less)
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- author
- Fredström, Linna LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVK02 20171
- year
- 2017
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- regionala flygplatser, flygplatspolitik, mobilitetsdiskurser, diskursanalys, hållbar mobilitet, socialinteraktiv diskursanalys
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 8907449
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- 2017-07-11 15:28:59
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