Is It Not Just Another Form of Violence Against Women? A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Swedish Government Office’s Investigation on Honor Oppression through a Postcolonial Feminist Lens
(2024) SOLM02 20241Department of Sociology of Law
- Abstract
- The recognition of honor-related violence has been emphasized in the media and through legal regulation during the last decades in Sweden. Honor oppression is often characterized by its cultural/religious roots and is found in patriarchal and collective societies. However, the regulations might have stigmatizing effects as they target certain communities in society. Previous research shows that honor-related violence differs in interpretation contextually and that the understanding of whether different forms of violence against women should be distinguished is discussed. This thesis aims to critically investigate how HO is described in the SOU 2020:57. The Theoretical Framework based on Third World feminism and Orientalism and Fairclough’s... (More)
- The recognition of honor-related violence has been emphasized in the media and through legal regulation during the last decades in Sweden. Honor oppression is often characterized by its cultural/religious roots and is found in patriarchal and collective societies. However, the regulations might have stigmatizing effects as they target certain communities in society. Previous research shows that honor-related violence differs in interpretation contextually and that the understanding of whether different forms of violence against women should be distinguished is discussed. This thesis aims to critically investigate how HO is described in the SOU 2020:57. The Theoretical Framework based on Third World feminism and Orientalism and Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis enables an analysis of the hegemonic discourse on honor oppression. The analysis illuminates the postcolonial feminist traits reproduced in the investigation on a textual- discursive- and social dimension. The analysis illustrates how critical tools from Postcolonial Feminism make visible interpretations of HO that can be discriminatory. The investigation furthermore can be interpreted as reproducing Othering effects, power asymmetries between gender and race, making certain communities “the” honor-related problem and that honor oppression have more similarities than differences with other forms of violence against women. (Less)
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- author
- Guricke, Nora LU
- supervisor
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- Jannice Käll LU
- organization
- course
- SOLM02 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- critical discourse analysis, Honor oppression, Orientalism, Postcolonial Feminism, Third World feminism, Violence against women
- language
- English
- id
- 9161338
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- 2024-06-19 12:55:56
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