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Swedish Feminist Foreign Policy: How can a feminist approach to foreign policy be understood?

Lobos Poblete, Stephanie LU (2018) FKVK02 20181
Department of Political Science
Abstract
This purpose of this thesis is to get a further understanding of what Swedish feminist foreign policy constitutes through a critical discourse analysis. By using gender mainstreaming strategies and feminist IR-theories as a theoretical framework for analysis, key aspects from these approaches are examined within the Swedish feminist foreign policy. This thesis mainly focuses on how the concepts of gender and feminism are understood, framed and linked in the policy. Four guiding models are used to categorise the Swedish approach to gender and feminism. Official documents, speeches and debate articles are analysed. The empiric material shows that more or less all approaches discussed in the theoretical framework, are reflected
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This purpose of this thesis is to get a further understanding of what Swedish feminist foreign policy constitutes through a critical discourse analysis. By using gender mainstreaming strategies and feminist IR-theories as a theoretical framework for analysis, key aspects from these approaches are examined within the Swedish feminist foreign policy. This thesis mainly focuses on how the concepts of gender and feminism are understood, framed and linked in the policy. Four guiding models are used to categorise the Swedish approach to gender and feminism. Official documents, speeches and debate articles are analysed. The empiric material shows that more or less all approaches discussed in the theoretical framework, are reflected
in the discourses on Swedish feminist foreign policy. Conclusions drawn highlight this, but also how the Swedish approach uses gender as a tool to achieve other central goals, that are not always directly connected to the goal of gender equality. This points towards an “efficiency”-approach that is likely to be further used in the feminist approach to foreign policy. However, a stronger political and critical approach is likewise visible, and is understood as more of a normative trait in the policy – reflecting a stronger transformationalist approach to foreign policy. (Less)
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author
Lobos Poblete, Stephanie LU
supervisor
organization
course
FKVK02 20181
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Gender, gender analysis, gender mainstreaming, feminist foreign policy, feminist IR-theory, Swedish feminist foreign policy
language
English
id
8942629
date added to LUP
2018-08-24 08:23:00
date last changed
2018-08-24 08:23:00
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  abstract     = {{This purpose of this thesis is to get a further understanding of what Swedish feminist foreign policy constitutes through a critical discourse analysis. By using gender mainstreaming strategies and feminist IR-theories as a theoretical framework for analysis, key aspects from these approaches are examined within the Swedish feminist foreign policy. This thesis mainly focuses on how the concepts of gender and feminism are understood, framed and linked in the policy. Four guiding models are used to categorise the Swedish approach to gender and feminism. Official documents, speeches and debate articles are analysed. The empiric material shows that more or less all approaches discussed in the theoretical framework, are reflected
in the discourses on Swedish feminist foreign policy. Conclusions drawn highlight this, but also how the Swedish approach uses gender as a tool to achieve other central goals, that are not always directly connected to the goal of gender equality. This points towards an “efficiency”-approach that is likely to be further used in the feminist approach to foreign policy. However, a stronger political and critical approach is likewise visible, and is understood as more of a normative trait in the policy – reflecting a stronger transformationalist approach to foreign policy.}},
  author       = {{Lobos Poblete, Stephanie}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Swedish Feminist Foreign Policy: How can a feminist approach to foreign policy be understood?}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}