I och med Islamiska Statens (IS) framfart och framgångsrika rekrytering har antalet människor som valt att lämna Sverige för att ansluta sig till terrororganisationen ökat drastiskt. Örebro kommun och Stockholms stad presenterade under 2015 olika strategier för återanpassning av de jihadister som återvänder till Sverige och i juni samma år presenterade regeringen, efter ett FN-direktiv, en utredning om särskilt straffansvar för resor i terrorismsyfte. Dessa händelser ledde till en livlig nationell debatt om hur jihadister bör hanteras när de återvänder till Sverige. Denna studie är en diskursanalys med utgångspunkter i Maarten Hajer diskursmetodologi och Michel Foucaults maktteori och syftet med studien är att undersöka samt analysera debatten kring hanteringen av återvändande jihadister i Sverige under 2015. Debatten är en del av den större rättssystemsdiskursen och studien visar att två sidor bildas i debatten, en som förespråkar striktare vedergällningsåtgärder och en sida som förespråkar återanpassning. Debatten är en diskursiv maktkamp mellan dessa två sidor och resulterar till slut i att vedergällningssidans juridiska och politiska ramar blir dominerande i debatten. I och med detta avgör vedergällningssidans aktörer vad som är accepterat och politiskt korrekt att uttrycka i frågan om hanteringen av återvändande jihadister i Sverige. Återanpassningens aktörer förändras då på så sätt att de tvingas förhålla sig till den dominerande ramen och dess språk.

In recent years, universities, municipalities, and other public and private organizations throughout Canada have banned the sale of bottled water from their facilities. To explore how such bans are linguistically and textually framed, proposed, and debated, this thesis analyzes drinking water policy and practice at the University of Victoria. Using Maarten Hajer’s approach to discourse analysis, discourses, story-lines, and discourse coalitions are identified. Through interviews with key players as well as textual analysis, I identify several discourses being mobilized to discuss drinking water at the University of Victoria, including that drinking water is an environmental issue, a public resource, a human right, a commodity, a health issue, and a revenue issue. The key discourse coalition working to define the issue of drinking water is a student coalition comprising the University of Victoria Sustainability Project and the University of Victoria Students’ Society. This coalition is promoting the argument that the sale of bottled water should be banned on campus. / Graduate / 0630 / 0768 / jaynab@uvic.ca

This thesis starts from the proposition that the ethical meat discourse that is, the discourse recognizing that factory farming is unacceptable while maintaining that it is possible to produce meat in an acceptable way — has not been thoroughly analyzed. Indeed, both the partisans of this idea and the animal rights literature provide oversimplified analyses of this relatively new phenomenon. Considering its explosion in popularity since Michael Pollan published the essay “An Animal's Place” in The New York Times Magazine in 2002, this lack of research is particularly problematic for the animal rights movement as this new discourse directly counters its objectives. As such, this thesis uses Gramsci’s concept of passive revolution to develop a richer analysis of the apparent marginalizing effect that this discourse has on the animal rights movement. More precisely, the thesis addresses the question: “If the emergence of the ethical meat discourse is understood as part of a passive revolution, what can the specific process of passive revolution tell us about the impacts of the ethical meat discourse on the animal rights movement?” It argues that the passive revolution operates on two levels: (1) it depoliticizes the issue of meat consumption by presenting it as irrelevant and reducing it to technical details and (2) it absorbs the moderate elements of the animal rights movement by proposing an attractive alternative. Both of these processes lead to the marginalization of the few animal advocacy organizations still criticizing ethical meat. The analysis is divided in three parts. The first and second analyze respectively the content of the discourse and internal dynamics of the coalition formed around it using Maarten Hajer’s concept of discourse-coalition. Building on this comprehensive understanding of the ethical meat discourse, the actual process of passive revolution is analyzed by looking at the way the meat industry, environmental organizations and animal advocacy organizations engage with it.

This thesis analyzes EU international climate policy discourses around the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol, its entry‐into‐force and the COP15‐negotiations in Copenhagen. Using EU‐press releases and employing Hajer’s argumentative approach, the main focus lies on discursive shifts and self representation. The thesis finds considerable discursive shifts, including a changing role of science, global responsibility and the economy. Findings also include the self‐representation of the EU changing from an emerging to an established and powerful actor but with a sharp rupture after COP15.