Studien intresserar sig för nyhetsmediernas konstruktion av politisk mobilisering i det postpolitiska samhället. Uppsatsen behandlar nyhetsrapporteringen på dn.se samt sydsvenskan.se, om den antirasistiska demonstrationen i Kärrtorp i december 2013 och den antirasistiska demonstrationen i Limhamn i augusti 2014. Syftet är att analysera hur demonstrationerna konstrueras i svensk dagspress, med intentionen att vidare analysera och diskutera hur journalistiken konstruerar legitimitet åt politiska praktiker samt undersöka huruvida det går att synliggöra någon ideologi i medietexterna. Frågeställningarna berör hur demonstrationerna representeras, hur identiteter konstrueras, vilka framträdande teman som återfinns samt hur hierarkiseringen av källor ser ut i artiklarna. En diskussionsfrågeställning syftar även till att diskutera om postpolitikens liberala diskurs har betydelse för hur dagspressen konstruerar legitimitet åt politiska praktiker. För att svara på frågeställningarna görs en kritisk diskursanalys inspirerad av Norman Faircloughs tredimensionella analysmodell. Textanalysen görs på en tematisk nivå av hela materialet, dessutom görs en närläsning av fyra artiklar. Chantal Mouffes teori om samtiden som postpolitisk används för att sätta texten i ett socialt sammanhang, Jan Ekecrantz & Tom Olssons makroorienterade teori om journalistiken som institution används för att få en förståelse för journalistikens position i samhället. Mikael Karlssons teori om nätjournalistik används för att förstå materialets karaktärsdrag. Studien visar att våld, polisinsatsen, hotet mot demokratin och vittnesberättelser är framträdande teman. Demonstrationerna representeras utifrån våld, officiella källor dominerar men även demonstranter och vittnen framträder. De politiska gruppernas identiteter konstrueras främst som goda eller onda utifrån våldsanvändning. Således dominerar en liberal, en akademisk och en polisiär diskurs, men det återfinns även en diskurs kritisk mot polisen; en motdiskurs. Den övergripande diskursen i materialet är ideologisk. Postpolitikens diskurs synliggörs genom att demonstrationerna konstrueras som illegitima politiska praktiker då deras politiska motiv osynliggörs, samtidigt som de bedöms som moraliskt förkastliga, med anledning av deras våldsamma utveckling.

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The purpose of this study is to explore the expressions of a commercialising fashion journalistic genre by focusing on how ELLE.se, Sweden’s biggest online fashion platform, use advertorials and click-based content. This is investigated through three research questions focusing on what journalistic and marketing discourses that are apparent in advertorials and click-based material; what blend of genres that are seen in different kinds of text commercial on ELLE.se and what discursive conflicts between journalistic ideals and commercial pressure are seen in the production of advertorial content. Theories used in the study are marketisation of public discourse together with Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the commercialisation of news and lastly genres, also focusing on fashion journalism as a genre. In order to explore the expressions a discursive analysis is used on advertorials and click- based material on ELLE.se whilst qualitative interviews with respondents producing the content are conducted to investigate the third research question. The results of the study show that numerous journalistic and marketing discourses are apparent in advertorials and click- based material, with personification through conversational discourse, the pursuit of happiness by portraying the reader as an imperfect person and a friendly brand through corporate advertising as three recurrent themes. A majority of the text commercial at ELLE.se balances between editorial content and advertisement, demonstrating many aspects of an evolving hybrid genre. Lastly, respondents in the qualitative interviews identify digitalisation, loss of journalistic quality and decreased reliability as three discursive conflicts between journalistic ideals and commercial pressure. The result stresses how the impact of commercialism and how journalistic and promotional discourses are continuously blended, showing aspects of ongoing hybridisation and converging genres.

Feminism as a tool has lately been used more frequently by governments and institutions, but has been criticized for only representing a Western point of view which has ignored perspectives of women in the so-called Global South. This thesis aims to investigate if Canada, in its recently launched Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy, describe women in developing countries from a Western view or if they have incorporated a postcolonial perspective in their policy. By applying a feminist postcolonial theory on Canada’s feminist development policy and with the inspiration of Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis, a shift in in the creation of subject positions of women in developing countries was noticed. The concluding remark emphasize that Canada should keep the postcolonial thought in mind while exercising their policy in the field of development in order to gain trust in the feminist belief.

Feminism as a tool has lately been used more frequently by governments and institutions, but has been criticized for only representing a Western point of view which has ignored perspectives of women in the so-called Global South. This thesis aims to investigate if Canada, in its recently launched Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy, describe women in developing countries from a Western view or if they have incorporated a postcolonial perspective in their policy. By applying a feminist postcolonial theory on Canada’s feminist development policy and with the inspiration of Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis, a shift in in the creation of subject positions of women in developing countries was noticed. The concluding remark emphasize that Canada should keep the postcolonial thought in mind while exercising their policy in the field of development in order to gain trust in the feminist belief.

Denna uppsats undersöker hur barnet konstrueras i 1900-talets populärvetenskapliga handböcker om uppfostran, samt huruvida konstruktionen av barnet har förändrats under det senaste århundradet. Uppsatsen diskuterar också hur de undersökta textavsnittens sätt att konstruera barnet kan påverka hur barnet konstrueras idag, år 2016. Uppsatsen ställer även upp en hypotes, vilken säger att barnet konstrueras som lägre stående än den vuxna.  För att kartlägga detta undersöks, med utgångspunkt i kritisk diskursanalys och stöd i Fairclough och Foucault, utdrag ur fyra böcker, nämligen Barnets århundrade av Ellen Key ([1901] 1996), Sunt förnuft i barnavård och barnuppfostran från födelsen till brytningsåren av Benjamin Spock ([1946] 1970), Barnaboken av Anna Wahlgren ([1983] 2008) samt Växa- inte lyda av Lars H. Gustafsson (2010). Samtliga undersökta böcker kan hävdas vara auktoriteter inom området.   Undersökningens resultat vederlägger delvis dess hypotes. Resultatet visar att tre av fyra undersökta textavsnitt konstruerar barnet som kompetent, intelligent och aktivt. Endast i en av de undersökta böckerna tycks barnet konstrueras i enlighet med uppsatsens hypotes. Avslutningsvis diskuteras dock huruvida det faktum att de vuxna ställer sig själva i en position där de konstruerar andra människor, barnen, skulle kunna innebära att uppsatsens hypotes trots allt är relevant.

This study investigates The Swedish Board of Health and Welfare handbooks and the upholding of the binary gender system using critical discourse analysis. The purpose of this study is to examine how the handbooks construct, produce and reproduce gender and examines the binary gender system prominence and dominance using Faircloughs critical discourse analysis. The study also makes use of a social constructivist perspective and queer theory. The results revealed how the handbooks both produce and reproduce the binary gender system by using a language, which exclude people who identify outside of the system. In this kind of study, it is only possible to speculate about the consequences from the order of discourse, by making the binary order of discourse visible and to reflect on the possible consequences for people who do not identify themselves as a woman or a man. / Denna studie har med hjälp av kritisk diskursanalys undersökt Socialstyrelsens handböcker för socialtjänsten och upprätthållandet av tvåkönsnormen. Syftet med studien är att granska hur handböckerna konstruerar, producerar och reproducerar kön och den undersöker när tvåkönsnormen är som mest framträdande. Dessa tillfällen har sedan analyserats med hjälp av Faircloughs kritiska diskursanalys. Studien behandlar även teorier som socialkonstruktivism och queerteori. Studiens resultat visade att handböckerna producerar och reproducerar det dominerande binära könssystemet genom användningen av ett språk som osynliggör de individer som identifierar sig bortom eller emellan det. I denna typ av studie går det endast att spekulera kring betydelsen av den dominerande diskursordningen och dess konsekvenser för socialt arbete genom att belysa hur diskursordningen ser ut och reflektera över möjliga konsekvenser för individer som identifierar sig som varken kvinna eller man.

The teacher's situation in upper secondary school today is strongly influenced by several factors, both inside and outside the school's walls. One of these factors are the national steering documents that are designed to regulate the educational activities: school law, curriculum and other regulations. The professionalism in the knowledge-based work has changed from being regulated within the profession to be used as a tool for controlling service personnel by the organisation (Evetts 2009, 2013). Based on a professional theoretical perspective and with critical discourse analysis as a method, this study focuses on:  1. To investigate how the teachers’ assignment appears in the steering documents, and what kind of professionalism that is emerging.  2. To investigate the ability of a professional teacher to act based on what appears in the steering documents regarding the characteristics of a profession.  3. The various regulatory documents’ content and formulations linked to previous research, i.e. if it is possible to connect the analysis of control documents with national research on the teacher's professional role and assignment.  The result shows that signs of the teacher's autonomy, discretion, self-control and expertise - characteristics of a profession - are not present in the steering documents, and instead the discourse of control used by the organization seems to have taken a clear place. With documentation requirements, grades based on standardized knowledge requirements and focus on goal attainment, the governing documents seem to limit and shrink the teacher's discretion, which leads to the assumption that the teacher demands greater responsibility, but is given less opportunity to act as a professional.

The present study deals with the institution in which many children spend a large part of their daily lives and thus their childhood. In preschool, the child is at the center of schooling and a part of a scheme with specific requirements, expectations and hopes.   The aim is to highlight how children are referred to and created as subjects when their behavior challenges or puzzles staff at preschool as a discursive practice.   The understanding that form the basis of this study is preschool staff’s experiences from professional practice and the difficulties that may exist when dealing with children that are challenging.   Through interviews with 4 pedagogues and after elucidating different discourses when it comes to children that are challenging on the ground that they relate to how pedagogues talks about children in different context. I´ve noticed four different discourses, children that upsets the natural order, children and situations of transition, children that puzzles and children and early interventions.  The result of the present study insinuated that it seems to be a discrepancy between the discourses about children that are challenging and the governing that control action and thinking in practice. For this a discourse analytic perspective with focus on power, mainly inspired by Michel Foucault has been used and Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis inspired by Gramsci and his use of hegemony.