Silent or silenced? A critical analysis of the Swedish media’s representation of Romani legal culture
(2023) SOLM02 20231Department of Sociology of Law
- Abstract
- In 2021 the Swedish media started investigating Romani trials, a supposed ‘parallel legal system’ that is practiced by some Romanies. Before 2021 the reportage on the phenomena is minimal. In general, academic research on Romani legal culture in Sweden is absent, similar goes for Romani representation in Swedish media. This thesis explores how Romani legal culture is represented in the Swedish media. By using a Critical Discourse Analysis, three discourses on Romani legal culture emerged. Romani legal culture is represented in the Swedish media as Kris, a parallel, deviant, and illegal system, as patriarchal and honor-related oppression and as a political question. Through the theoretical concepts legal culture, epistemic violence, and... (More)
- In 2021 the Swedish media started investigating Romani trials, a supposed ‘parallel legal system’ that is practiced by some Romanies. Before 2021 the reportage on the phenomena is minimal. In general, academic research on Romani legal culture in Sweden is absent, similar goes for Romani representation in Swedish media. This thesis explores how Romani legal culture is represented in the Swedish media. By using a Critical Discourse Analysis, three discourses on Romani legal culture emerged. Romani legal culture is represented in the Swedish media as Kris, a parallel, deviant, and illegal system, as patriarchal and honor-related oppression and as a political question. Through the theoretical concepts legal culture, epistemic violence, and injustice I have analyzed whose voices are heard and silenced in the representation and understanding of legal culture. Ultimately, the media displays a narrow homogeneous representation of Romani legal culture, and the understanding of Romani legal culture is produced in a comparison with the Swedish legal culture. Romanies who do not align with the discourses created by the media, are not given any power or credibility in their statements due to epistemic injustice and violence. Further, by conducting this thesis in the field of Sociology of Law, I have been able to study legal phenomena in a societal arena, while also examining the social and historical structures that might be underpinning and affect people's understanding of a specific legal culture. The thesis provides knowledge contributions in terms of relevant and recent knowledge on how Romani legal culture in Sweden is represented and understood as well as how epistemic violence and injustice can be utilized within the sociolegal field. (Less)
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- author
- Dimmlich, Linn LU
- supervisor
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- Ida Nafstad LU
- organization
- course
- SOLM02 20231
- year
- 2023
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Romani legal culture, Romani Kris, Roma, representation, Swedish media, discourse, epistemic violence, epistemic injustice, legal culture, Sociology of Law
- language
- English
- id
- 9117905
- date added to LUP
- 2023-06-27 14:41:07
- date last changed
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abstract = {{In 2021 the Swedish media started investigating Romani trials, a supposed ‘parallel legal system’ that is practiced by some Romanies. Before 2021 the reportage on the phenomena is minimal. In general, academic research on Romani legal culture in Sweden is absent, similar goes for Romani representation in Swedish media. This thesis explores how Romani legal culture is represented in the Swedish media. By using a Critical Discourse Analysis, three discourses on Romani legal culture emerged. Romani legal culture is represented in the Swedish media as Kris, a parallel, deviant, and illegal system, as patriarchal and honor-related oppression and as a political question. Through the theoretical concepts legal culture, epistemic violence, and injustice I have analyzed whose voices are heard and silenced in the representation and understanding of legal culture. Ultimately, the media displays a narrow homogeneous representation of Romani legal culture, and the understanding of Romani legal culture is produced in a comparison with the Swedish legal culture. Romanies who do not align with the discourses created by the media, are not given any power or credibility in their statements due to epistemic injustice and violence. Further, by conducting this thesis in the field of Sociology of Law, I have been able to study legal phenomena in a societal arena, while also examining the social and historical structures that might be underpinning and affect people's understanding of a specific legal culture. The thesis provides knowledge contributions in terms of relevant and recent knowledge on how Romani legal culture in Sweden is represented and understood as well as how epistemic violence and injustice can be utilized within the sociolegal field.}},
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language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Silent or silenced? A critical analysis of the Swedish media’s representation of Romani legal culture}},
year = {{2023}},
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