Flertalet motioner som berör förslag om visitationszoner i utsatta områden har överlämnats till Sveriges riksdag. Förslagen behandlar att polisen, efter åklagarbeslut, bör ges möjlighet att upprätta tidsbegränsade samt geografiskt avgränsade visitationszoner, där kroppsvisitation och husrannsakan får företas utan att någon konkret misstanke om brott föreligger. Samtliga motioner framhåller ett påtagligt behov av det utökade tillämpningsområdet. Behovet motiveras med hänvisning till en oroväckande brottsutveckling. I synnerhet bedöms ökningen av narkotika- och våldsbrottslighet utgöra ett allvarligt hot. Visitationszonernas potentiella införande har emellertid kritiserats mot bakgrund av deras ingripande i integriteten, reproduktion av fördomar samt att de riskerar undergräva förtroendet som polisen söker främja i det brottsförebyggande arbetet i utsatta områden. Uppsatsen syftar till att analysera hur legitimeringen av utökade polisiära befogenheter kan problematiseras utifrån teorin om ontologisk säkerhet, med ett fördjupande tillägg av ett perspektiv på politisk geografi, samt en postkolonial förståelse. Uppsatsen tillämpar Lene Hansens (2006) poststrukturalistiskt grundade diskursanalys med material av de till dags dato 32 framlagda motioner som förespråkar visitationszoner. Den ontologiska säkerhetsteorin kontextualiserar ett subjekts självuppfattning, vilken avses upprätthållas vid mötet med ett existentiell hot. Den postkoloniala teorin möjliggör vidare en maktorienterad förståelse som ger en historisk kontinuitet till det samtida upplevda behovet av säkerhetssökande strategier. Uppsatsen visar hur den Andra i utsatta områden konstrueras som ett hot gentemot stabiliteten i den svenska ontologiska säkerheten. Upprätthållandet av den svenska ontologiska säkerheten blir därmed avhängig utökad kontroll av den Andra genom geografiskt avgränsade visitationszoner. Genom uppsatsens teoretiska integrering möjliggörs en nyanserad förståelse kring hur visitationszoner i utsatta områden legitimeras. Genom detta tillskrivs den svenska ontologiska säkerhetens politiska geografi en historisk kontinuitet som grundas i det postkoloniala arvet samt dess samtida neokoloniala maktstrukturer.

The purpose of this study is to explore how the relation between gender and humour is maintained and challenged in the Swedish TV show Parlamentet. Using an interactional approach based on Judith Baxter’s theoretical framework for feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis, the study focuses on how communicative strategies are used in negotiating for the ideal position of “the successful comedian”. This position is seen as an ideal position in Parlamentet, where comedians do political parody. In the conversation sequences examined in this study, both verbal and bodily semiotic modes have been analyzed using conversation analysis and multimodal analysis. The study focuses on how different communicative strategies encourage or reject the comedians and how this leads to different possibilities in negotiating for a powerful position, the position of the successful comedian. Humour is culturally seen as a male-coded discourse. The relations between humour and gender that are in focus are the hegemonic notions of women as lacking a sense of humour or being less humorous than men. The notions of gender are based on Judith Butler’s theories and hence seen as something performed through discourse and within a rigid regulatory frame where the subject’s possibilities are not infinite. The results of the study show that the female and male comedians do not have the same possibilities in the negotiation for the position of “the successful comedian”. The male comedians are strongly encouraged to a greater extent than the female comedians. The female comedians are also rejected to a larger extent than the male comedians. The male comedians are mostly rejected by the moderator whereas the female comedians are rejected by the moderator, male comedians and female comedians. The female comedians encourage other comedians to a larger degree than the male comedians. A significant finding of this study is that the relations between humour and gender, where women are seen as less humorous than men, are maintained when female comedians through discourse are made less humorous. However, there are strategies in the interaction that do encourage the female comedians or that lead to female comedian’s resist being rejected. These strategies indicate that the hegemonic cultural notions of women as less humorous than men are also challenged in this public discourse.

Entertainment media, specifically television, plays a big part in the construction of ideas and thoughts within a society. Television is a form of popular culture which can be used as a source of entertainment but can also promote certain ideologies and values to its audience. Sex Education is a Netflix series released in 2019 with a primary focus on knowledge around sexuality. This study aims to investigate how the Netflix-show Sex Education constructs knowledge around sexuality and how it conveys values and ideologies through this construction of knowledge. The study is different from other studies about the show as it focuses explicitly on the knowledge and conversations around sexuality, not how the knowledge is constructed in sex scenes or through other relations and characterizations in the show. The study specifically interests itself with the conversational and articulated elements of sex education. It is important to study how Sex Education portrays knowledge about sexuality as it reflects values and ideologies within a western society, and can be helpful in exploring the discourse around sex education that prevails within this type of society. This construction will have an effect on the audience which consumes it and will showcase the boundaries which sex education presents and articulates itself within. The discourse within the show sets the grounds for how the topic of sex education is spoken about within their given culture. The study uses a poststructuralist discourse analysis to approach the research and finds similar elements within twelve selected scenes from the show to explore how knowledge about sexuality is constructed in the material. Important factors of the analysis are power, ideology, status and values. These are explored in connection to characters' subject positions and the context in which the factors exist: a fictional exaggerated version of western society. The study finds that the selected scenes create a power struggle between a hegemonic, traditional and progressive discourse around sex education. The suggested discourse in their fictional world is the progressive discourse which includes a positive attitude towards diversity and social aspects of sex education. It also highlights a difference in characters' attitudes depending on their subject positions.