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Tidningsdebatten i januari 2016 omkring de sexuella trakasserierna vid festivalen We are Sthlm

Saidi, Rustam LU (2021) GNVK02 20201
Department of Gender Studies
Abstract
This essay will portray how articles in Swedish newspapers conveyed the sexual harassments that happened in a festival in Stockholm between 2014-2015 in the context of a media debate on sexual harassment, asylum seekers and police intervention that took place in January 2016. My research question is ”How have three Swedish newspapers dealt with the sexual harassments that took place at the We are Sthlm festival during the years 2014–15?” This thesis makes a critical discourse ana- lysis of all articles published on the topic of sexual harassment at the festival We are Sthlm in Af- tonbladet, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet in the period 11 January to 23 January 2016. Earlier research on media representation and right-wing populist... (More)
This essay will portray how articles in Swedish newspapers conveyed the sexual harassments that happened in a festival in Stockholm between 2014-2015 in the context of a media debate on sexual harassment, asylum seekers and police intervention that took place in January 2016. My research question is ”How have three Swedish newspapers dealt with the sexual harassments that took place at the We are Sthlm festival during the years 2014–15?” This thesis makes a critical discourse ana- lysis of all articles published on the topic of sexual harassment at the festival We are Sthlm in Af- tonbladet, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet in the period 11 January to 23 January 2016. Earlier research on media representation and right-wing populist discourse is used as a background, and my analysis also uses the concepts of masculinity, femininity and racification processes. Re- sults show that the representation of issues of sexual harassment in mainstream Swedish newspa- pers did not differ substantially from extreme-right and right-wing populist discourse in Europe concerning representing women as passive victims in need of protection, sexualising “black” men, and representing young Muslim asylum seekers as a threat to Swedish women and Swedish values and culture. The newspapers discussed the issue as a matter of “culture”, rather than ethnic back- ground, but the young girls who were affected instead discussed the question as a general matter of gender. Differences appeared in the articles concerning how strongly they blamed the lack of action from the police. In view of the way the police and the police director Dan Eliasson were targeted in the media debate, the articles on sexual harassment in January 2016 can be understood against the background of Eliasson’s decision not to impose border controls in September 2015. (Less)
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author
Saidi, Rustam LU
supervisor
organization
course
GNVK02 20201
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
sexuella trakasserier, offer, gärningsman, festival, flyktingar, media, högerpopulism, maskuliniteter, sexual harassment, victim, perpetrator, refugees, right-wing populism, masculinities
language
Swedish
id
9066449
date added to LUP
2021-10-07 08:53:11
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2021-10-07 08:53:11
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  abstract     = {{This essay will portray how articles in Swedish newspapers conveyed the sexual harassments that happened in a festival in Stockholm between 2014-2015 in the context of a media debate on sexual harassment, asylum seekers and police intervention that took place in January 2016. My research question is ”How have three Swedish newspapers dealt with the sexual harassments that took place at the We are Sthlm festival during the years 2014–15?” This thesis makes a critical discourse ana- lysis of all articles published on the topic of sexual harassment at the festival We are Sthlm in Af- tonbladet, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet in the period 11 January to 23 January 2016. Earlier research on media representation and right-wing populist discourse is used as a background, and my analysis also uses the concepts of masculinity, femininity and racification processes. Re- sults show that the representation of issues of sexual harassment in mainstream Swedish newspa- pers did not differ substantially from extreme-right and right-wing populist discourse in Europe concerning representing women as passive victims in need of protection, sexualising “black” men, and representing young Muslim asylum seekers as a threat to Swedish women and Swedish values and culture. The newspapers discussed the issue as a matter of “culture”, rather than ethnic back- ground, but the young girls who were affected instead discussed the question as a general matter of gender. Differences appeared in the articles concerning how strongly they blamed the lack of action from the police. In view of the way the police and the police director Dan Eliasson were targeted in the media debate, the articles on sexual harassment in January 2016 can be understood against the background of Eliasson’s decision not to impose border controls in September 2015.}},
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  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Tidningsdebatten i januari 2016 omkring de sexuella trakasserierna vid festivalen We are Sthlm}},
  year         = {{2021}},
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