International governmental organizations aren´t "Swiss" enough
(2010) STVK01 20102Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Switzerland has a tradition of holding a political resistance to international governmental organizations. Under the last decades there has been three referendums regarding whether Switzerland should enter the EU or not, with a view of this I will examine those years. The aim of this essay is to explore if there is a discourse regarding national identity in the Swiss media concerning the EU membership and if it has changed over time. I choose to analyze the two biggest daily newspapers in Switzerland, Tages Anzeiger and Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Previous science has focused on economical causes but I want to see if national identity has an impact on the political resistance that Switzerland holds against international organizations. With help... (More)
- Switzerland has a tradition of holding a political resistance to international governmental organizations. Under the last decades there has been three referendums regarding whether Switzerland should enter the EU or not, with a view of this I will examine those years. The aim of this essay is to explore if there is a discourse regarding national identity in the Swiss media concerning the EU membership and if it has changed over time. I choose to analyze the two biggest daily newspapers in Switzerland, Tages Anzeiger and Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Previous science has focused on economical causes but I want to see if national identity has an impact on the political resistance that Switzerland holds against international organizations. With help of critical discourse analyzes and theories of nationalism I want to explore if a discourse of national identity can be found in the media. In my material I found that there is a national identity in the media and that it has changed over time. In the articles I located that the discourse is stronger used in the year 2001, I found an occurrence of “we” and them” and that “we” as a nation are threatened by a EU membership. (Less)
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- author
- Blanc, Isabelle LU
- supervisor
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- Martin Hall LU
- organization
- alternative title
- en diskursanalys om den schweiziska identiteten i media kring ett EU medlemskap
- course
- STVK01 20102
- year
- 2010
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- kritisk diskursanalys, Schweiz, EU, nationell identitet, överstatliga organisationer
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1758260
- date added to LUP
- 2011-02-10 11:27:19
- date last changed
- 2011-02-10 11:27:19
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