Mannen och kvinnan har över tid framställs olika i text och tal, likaså individer i missbruk. Individer i svårt missbruk kan bli föremål för prövning av tvångsvård. Förvaltningsrätten dömer individerna enligt Lag (1988:870) om vård av missbrukare i vissa fall (LVM). Syftet med föreliggande studie är att undersöka hur män respektive kvinnor porträtteras i skriftliga dokument i form av LVM-domar. För att uppnå syftet har vi valt att använda oss av kritisk diskursanalys (CDA) som metod. Det teoretiska ramverket för studien har utgjorts av teori om socialkonstruktionism samt genus. Antalet domar som analyserats är 28 stycken. Studiens resultat visar att det finns en diskrepans mellan hur män och kvinnor framställs i LVM-domarna. Kvinnor porträtteras som mer passiva än män. Därtill framträder medicinsk diskurs samt marknadsdiskurs. / Men and women have over time been portrayed differently in text and talk, addicts as well. Individuals struggling with addiction can in the Swedish court be sentenced to compulsory care (LVM). The purpose of the study is to investigate how men and women are portrayed in the verdicts ruled by the court. We have used critical discourse analysis as a method. The theoretical framework of the study is based on social constructionism and gendertheory. We have analyzed 28 verdicts. The results of the study shows that there is a difference between how women and men are described. The results also show different discourses such as the addict as a passive object, the woman as a victim, the medical discourse and the market discourse.

On the 24th of February Russia invaded Ukraine from multiple directions, causing a sudden influx of Ukrainians fleeing the country to the EU territories to be safe from the war. The reactions from the neighboring countries were uncharacteristically welcoming and humanitarian aid was promptly delivered to the ones in need. This creates a contrast to the refugees coming from outside Europe and their treatment. This thesis utilizes a three-dimensional Critical Discourse Analysis to examine the discourse on Ukrainian refugees in Deutsche Welle and Aljazeera in the days following the start of the invasion. Poststructural theory of power and identity constructions is employed to uncover hidden assumptions and knowledge production in the discourse. I argue that the notions of Eurocentrism and Eurocentric views on identities are prevailing in the discourse and that this emphasis on Europe as the in-group deepens the divide between the out-group.

As biodiversity continues to diminish worldwide, an interrogation of long-standing conservation discourse is needed to reformulate a new conservation rhetoric that confronts the socio-ecological complexities of the world and reorients the relationship between humans and nature. Using ecologically sensitive critical discourse analysis, this research investigates the dominant ideologies perpetuated within an iteration of mainstream American wildlife discourse and explores opportunities for transformative conservation alternatives. Critical discourse analysis is performed on the State Wildlife Action Plans policy framework, which serve as the United States’ primary comprehensive wildlife conservation strategies that guide states in the preservation of fish and wildlife. Analysis of the State Wildlife Action Plans Report and Best Practices for State Wildlife Action Plans documentation revealed three dominant ideologies constructed and perpetuated within this conservation program, summarized as “Human Centrality,” “Animals as Resources,” and “The Supremacy of the Economic.” These three ideologies are manifestations of the overarching worldview of Anthropocentrism. After identifying the potentially harmful impacts associated with these ideologies, new stories inspired by insight from various environmental philosophies, Indigenous beliefs, and historical conservation leaders that align with the tenets of transformative conservation are created. These three new, alternative stories are: “Honoring the Intrinsic Value of Nature,” “Humans and Nature Rejoined,” and “Decentering the Economic.” By disentangling the hegemonic ideologies and power relations upheld within American conservation discourse, novel ways of thinking inspired by transformative conservation can be forged to combat biodiversity loss.

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In this thesis, I investigate the German-speaking attachment-oriented parenting community on Instagram. Focusing on a debate about new-right activities in the community, I analyze how motherhood (self-)conceptions were discursively entangled with questions of resistance to and tolerance of the new right. Two questions guide my thesis: 1) How was attachment-oriented motherhood conceptualized in the debate? How were these con-ceptions classed and racialized? 2) How did the community produce openness for the appropriation by the new right? How did the community resist appropriation? To answer these questions, I conduct a critical discourse analysis of 45 Instagram posts and their comment sections. My thesis is grounded in motherhood theories, in particular Hays’s intensive mothering, and theories that take seriously the intersectionality of powerstructures. I also refer to Skeggs’s theory on gender, class, and respectability, and workon whiteness and femininity Ahmed and Shome. I find diverse conceptions of attachment-oriented motherhood that differed with regard to their resistance to and reinforcement of intensive motherhood and far-right ideologies. Resistant motherhood concepts sought collective action and mobilized mothers’responsibility for the opposition against the new right. Investment in the respectability of attachment-oriented motherhood on the other hand obstructed the discussion about new-right activities, diverting attention away from politics. Concepts of motherhood from New-Age community members not only tolerated far-right ideology, but at times even reproduced it, in particular in the concept of conspiritual motherhood.

Media has a big influence on today's society, as it is one of the main sources of information for the general public. The political scene in Sweden has become more mediazied and politicians use the media platforms to communicate with the citizens. Media has the power to produce, reproduce and challenge discourses. Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate the construction of the refugee-discourse, with focus on refugees from Ukraine, in a selection of Swedish newspapers during the first two months of the war in Ukraine. The study aims to explain how the discourse is constructed, what affects this can have on the organizational level of social work and how this affects the social worker in regards to thoughts and actions in their profession. The study utilizes critical discourse analysis since this method connects the text to the social practice it exists in, while also looking at the production and consumption of the texts. To analyze the results, theories regarding social psychology and social constructivism were used. The analysis lead to the finding of three main discourses: (1) the diligent refugee, and what possibilities and risks they face when arriving and integrating in Sweden; (2) the refugees as vulnerable mothers and children that risk living in poverty or being exploited on the labor market; and (3) who is responsible for the social integration and care of the ukrainian refugee. The conclusion is that organizational reforms can lead to a disruption in the execution of social work, and that the individual social worker’s professional ethics can be tainted in regards to thoughts about and actions towards the Ukrainian refugee.

This thesis addresses representation of ‘irregular’ migrants in the ‘Süddeutsche Zeitung’ (SZ). The study employs the discourse event of New Year’s Eve 2015 in Cologne as a temporal marker and aims to examine representations of ‘irregular’ migrants prior to and following the event. A critical discourse analysis (CDA) of fourteen articles is conducted, and Fairclough’s three-dimensional model is employed to analyse the material. Following a textual analysis, in which the use of modality is examined, the sociocultural dimension of the newspaper discourse is investigated. This section sees the application of Stuart Hall’s Othering to the analysis, as well as an inspection of prevalent themes found in the material. The analysis concludes with the finding of ‘deservingness’ and ‘semantics of crime and threat’ as prevalent themes. Furthermore, the results show that ‘irregular’ migrants are constructed as the ‘Other’ in SZ articles, however, this finding is not generalisable to the entire sample.

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur svensk nyhetsrapportering framställer ungdomsbrottsligheten i Sverige. Vidare var syftet att undersöka vilka möjliga orsaker media antar ligger till grund för ungdomsbrottsligheten samt hur media genom diskurser kan konstruera samhällets syn på ungdomsbrottsligheten. Detta gjordes genom att analysera 22 nyhetsartiklar från fyra svenska nyhetstidningar med hjälp av Faircloughs kritiska diskursanalys, socialkonstruktivism som kunskapsteori samt ett intersektionellt perspektiv. I analysen kunde vi identifiera tre diskurser: diskursen om socialt utsatta områden, diskursen om ungdomar ochdiskursen om samhällets ansvar. Resultatet visade att ungdomar som begår brott framställdes som en homogen grupp beståendes av pojkar och unga män. Vidare fann vi att ungdomarna sällan kom till tals själva och en återkommande anledning till varför de gjorde sig skyldiga till brott var pengar. Resultatet visade även att samhället har en stor betydelse för dessa ungdomar. Bland annat framkom det att brister i det sociala arbetet bidrog till att ungdomarna valde den kriminella vägen eftersom de upplevde ett svek från samhället. Slutligen fann vi att media försökte dekonstruera bilden av ungdomsbrottsligheten, dock misslyckades de när det kom till diskursen om socialt utsatta områden då denna förändring ligger på en högre samhällsnivå. / The aim of this study wasto examine how Swedish news media portrays juvenile delinquencyin Sweden. Furthermore, the purpose wasto examine the possible causes media assumes lay behind juvenile delinquency and how media through discourses may construct the public image on juvenile delinquency. This was made through an analysis of 22 news articles from four Swedish newspapers together with Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis, social constructivism as a theory of knowledge, and by applying an intersectional perspective to the material. We identified three discourses in the analysis: the discourse on socially disadvantaged areas, the discourse on adolescents and the discourse on society's responsibility. The results showed that young people who commit crimes were presented as a homogenous group of boys and young men. A recurrent reason found as to why they commit crimes was money. The results also showed that the society plays a big part for these young people as shortcomings in social work led to experiences of betrayal on society’s side and hence contributed to many young offenders to opt for a criminal career. The analysis also revealed clear attempts by the media to deconstruct the image of juvenile delinquency, without however succeeding to overcome the effects of the discourse on socially disadvantageous areas, which appearedto be strongly entrenched in current Swedish public life.

As the notion of sustainability has gained prominence in the past decade, so have different disciplines that have addressed sustainability issues from an educational standpoint, for example Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development. Both fields have been called out for shortcomings such as omitting social considerations to sustainability issues and reproducing neoliberal framings that go hand in hand with oppressive power structures and systemic inequality. To better grasp how sustainability education is framed in relation to anti-oppressive pedagogy, this research conducted a Critical Discourse Analysis on selected materials that were publicly available on the websites of three international high schools with sustainability-oriented curricula—Green School, United World Colleges, and Amala Education. From the analysis of the selected documents, the three educational organizations’ discourses of sustainability align with the narrative of Education for Sustainable Development and lack critical considerations on the embeddedness of their sustainability education, and the larger sustainability challenge, in neoliberal framings and systems of oppression that reproduce inequality and marginalization and that constrain processes of transformation. While language that relates to the framings of anti-oppressive pedagogy was present, to different extents, in the texts of the three organizations, it was not framed in relation to sustainability, but as a separate layer of educational practice, lacking problematization on the role of sustainability education discourses in the making of anti-oppressive sustainability education, and on the critical significance of considering anti-oppressive pedagogy for the making of sustainability education.

Adultery, abortion, witchcraft, sex work, are crimes that have historically until today been identified as predominantly female crimes. By criminalizing them, the patriarchal society exercises a control of the body and sexuality of women to maintain and remain them in their gender norms. However, patriarchal society participated in their victimization. In fact, many women in prison have been abused in their childhood and often faced a continuous victimization. The aim of this thesis, using feminist theories and critical discourse analysis as part of a case study, is to understand to what extent the patriarchal system has an impact on the creation of the female offender arguing that female offenders are victims of the patriarchal system before being criminals. The analysis of discourses surrounding the case of Lisa Montgomery demonstrates that gender has an impact on how people are criminalized and punished. The abuses often overlooked by the system have an impact on the crime trajectories of female offenders. However, the justice system rarely takes those aspects into consideration, especially when the female offender does not fit her gender norms. She is then described as an inhuman monster who deserves a severe punishment. This participates to maintain and reinforce patriarchy by recalling societal norms of femininity. The case of Montgomery represents thus one of many cases in which female offenders are, before being an offender, a victim of the system that allowed her continuous victimization.