To securitize or not to securitize, that is the question
(2016) STVK02 20152Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- This thesis is a documentation of the security discourse of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. It utilizes the Copenhagen School’s securitization theory to identify speech acts of securitization and desecuritization in the speaking and writing of political actors within the Swedish Social Democratic Party, focusing on the securitization of Muslims. This is done through a qualitative context analysis. The thesis also examines the rhetoric speech structure through a rhetoric discourse analysis. It covers selected writings from Swedish daily newspapers and government official documents over a five year period between 2010 and 2015. The objective is to shed some light on the security and rhetoric discourse in an effort to extend the research... (More)
- This thesis is a documentation of the security discourse of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. It utilizes the Copenhagen School’s securitization theory to identify speech acts of securitization and desecuritization in the speaking and writing of political actors within the Swedish Social Democratic Party, focusing on the securitization of Muslims. This is done through a qualitative context analysis. The thesis also examines the rhetoric speech structure through a rhetoric discourse analysis. It covers selected writings from Swedish daily newspapers and government official documents over a five year period between 2010 and 2015. The objective is to shed some light on the security and rhetoric discourse in an effort to extend the research on securitization theory to the case of Sweden. Through in depth readings, results show how the security discourse have changed over time from a more desecurity focused orientation into a more security heavy structure. It also reveals that the nature of the securitization of Muslims have changed from an almost exclusive extremist perspective to a wider, more incorporative one. The author encourages further studies on the changing nature of the security and rhetoric discourse by incorporating policy implementations. (Less)
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- author
- Hansen, Martin LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- A study looking at the portrayal of Muslims in the Swedish Social Democratic Party’s security discourse
- course
- STVK02 20152
- year
- 2016
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- securitization, desecuritization, Muslim, the Swedish Social Democratic Party, rhetoric analysis
- language
- English
- additional info
- Thank you, Mom!
- id
- 8514667
- date added to LUP
- 2016-02-02 13:55:20
- date last changed
- 2016-02-02 13:55:20
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