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"De ska jagas till världens ände": En postkolonial studie om mediebevakningen efter ett mord i Malmö

Tijero, Karla LU (2020) GNVK02 20201
Department of Gender Studies
Abstract
This paper explores the news media discourse that followed after the fatal shooting of Karolin Hakim in Malmö August 2019. Her death was in the early stages connected to gang-related violence and received significant media coverage. This discourse analysis examines news articles from the initial news reporting, and throughout the rest of 2019.The theoretical framework is anchored in post-colonial theory, applying the concepts of othering and racialization to analyze the texts. Feminist perspectives on the cultural politics of emotions, and the ways cultural and national values are inscribed on bodies, are also used, addressing the interplay of gender, class and ethnicity in relation to the news media’s
construction of both Karolin Hakim... (More)
This paper explores the news media discourse that followed after the fatal shooting of Karolin Hakim in Malmö August 2019. Her death was in the early stages connected to gang-related violence and received significant media coverage. This discourse analysis examines news articles from the initial news reporting, and throughout the rest of 2019.The theoretical framework is anchored in post-colonial theory, applying the concepts of othering and racialization to analyze the texts. Feminist perspectives on the cultural politics of emotions, and the ways cultural and national values are inscribed on bodies, are also used, addressing the interplay of gender, class and ethnicity in relation to the news media’s
construction of both Karolin Hakim and gang-criminals. The main findings are that Karolin Hakim, through her motherhood and medical profession is ascribed cultural values complying to notions of Swedishness. Therefore, incorporating her into an “us”, while the news media’s racialization of gang-criminals, through the construction of otherness, results in a subordinate “them”. This is strengthened by ethnically diverse and deprived areas being deemed responsible for gang-criminality, ignoring the relation between spatial inequalities and crime. The news media discourse, thus reinforces and furthers the distance between a perceived ethnically Swedish “us” and racialized “Others”. (Less)
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author
Tijero, Karla LU
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course
GNVK02 20201
year
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M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
post-colonialism, othering, racialization, body politics, politics of emotions
language
Swedish
id
9027208
date added to LUP
2020-08-28 13:48:53
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2020-08-28 13:48:53
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  abstract     = {{This paper explores the news media discourse that followed after the fatal shooting of Karolin Hakim in Malmö August 2019. Her death was in the early stages connected to gang-related violence and received significant media coverage. This discourse analysis examines news articles from the initial news reporting, and throughout the rest of 2019.The theoretical framework is anchored in post-colonial theory, applying the concepts of othering and racialization to analyze the texts. Feminist perspectives on the cultural politics of emotions, and the ways cultural and national values are inscribed on bodies, are also used, addressing the interplay of gender, class and ethnicity in relation to the news media’s
construction of both Karolin Hakim and gang-criminals. The main findings are that Karolin Hakim, through her motherhood and medical profession is ascribed cultural values complying to notions of Swedishness. Therefore, incorporating her into an “us”, while the news media’s racialization of gang-criminals, through the construction of otherness, results in a subordinate “them”. This is strengthened by ethnically diverse and deprived areas being deemed responsible for gang-criminality, ignoring the relation between spatial inequalities and crime. The news media discourse, thus reinforces and furthers the distance between a perceived ethnically Swedish “us” and racialized “Others”.}},
  author       = {{Tijero, Karla}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{"De ska jagas till världens ände": En postkolonial studie om mediebevakningen efter ett mord i Malmö}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}