Local Cosmopolitanism and The Discourse of Integration: A Colonial Discourse Analysis on Western Policies of Remediation
(2019) STVM25 20182Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Understanding third spaces as spaces of resistance and hybridity, this thesis examines western policies of remediation from a minoritarian perspective. It is an attempt to understand textual reality from a minoritarian viewpoint with tools offered for such critical analysis. Policies and organizations of influence are the greatest transmitters of homogeneous values; understanding power through technologies of citizenship and the liberal democratic ‘will to empower’, the study examines problem formulations through the postcolonial concepts of mimicry, othering and hybridity. With a focus on ruptures and counter discourses within the discourse of integration and the problem formulations articulated therein; processes working towards or in... (More)
- Understanding third spaces as spaces of resistance and hybridity, this thesis examines western policies of remediation from a minoritarian perspective. It is an attempt to understand textual reality from a minoritarian viewpoint with tools offered for such critical analysis. Policies and organizations of influence are the greatest transmitters of homogeneous values; understanding power through technologies of citizenship and the liberal democratic ‘will to empower’, the study examines problem formulations through the postcolonial concepts of mimicry, othering and hybridity. With a focus on ruptures and counter discourses within the discourse of integration and the problem formulations articulated therein; processes working towards or in contradiction to the minoritarian condition are dismantled and categorized. The study concludes with the notion of absent hybridities within the work of the Swedish ESF. Problem formulations encourage comparitative performativities based on the conceptual premises offered by the Swedish ESF; recreating difference and boundaries in the locale of Malmö. (Less)
- Popular Abstract
- Understanding third spaces as spaces of resistance and hybridity, this thesis examines western policies of remediation from a minoritarian perspective. It is an attempt to understand textual reality from a minoritarian viewpoint with tools offered for such critical analysis. Policies and organizations of influence are the greatest transmitters of homogeneous values; understanding power through technologies of citizenship and the liberal democratic ‘will to empower’, the study examines problem formulations through the postcolonial concepts of mimicry, othering and hybridity. With a focus on ruptures and counter discourses within the discourse of integration and the problem formulations articulated therein; processes working towards or in... (More)
- Understanding third spaces as spaces of resistance and hybridity, this thesis examines western policies of remediation from a minoritarian perspective. It is an attempt to understand textual reality from a minoritarian viewpoint with tools offered for such critical analysis. Policies and organizations of influence are the greatest transmitters of homogeneous values; understanding power through technologies of citizenship and the liberal democratic ‘will to empower’, the study examines problem formulations through the postcolonial concepts of mimicry, othering and hybridity. With a focus on ruptures and counter discourses within the discourse of integration and the problem formulations articulated therein; processes working towards or in contradiction to the minoritarian condition are dismantled and categorized. The study concludes with the notion of absent hybridities within the work of the Swedish ESF. Problem formulations encourage comparitative performativities based on the conceptual premises offered by the Swedish ESF; recreating difference and boundaries in the locale of Malmö. (Less)
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- author
- Carkani, Shkurte LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVM25 20182
- year
- 2019
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- colonial discourse, policies of remediation, global migrants, European Social Fund, integration, postcolonial theory, local cosmopolitanism, ambivalence, hybridity, mimicry, othering
- language
- English
- id
- 8965130
- date added to LUP
- 2019-03-20 15:22:29
- date last changed
- 2019-03-20 15:22:29
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