Kampen om hedersförtryck: En diskursanalytisk studie av hur hedersförtryck framställts av olika partimedlemmar i Vänsterpartiet
2020 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesisAlternative title
The Left Party and honour oppression : A discourse analysis of how honour oppression has been constructed by members of the Swedish Left Party (English)
Abstract [en]
Honour oppression is a contested social phenomenon that has been debated for more than two decades in media, politics, and academia. The phenomenon has caused polarization between different actors due to its linkage to other political issues surrounding immigration, culture, racism, integration, and segregation. Three discourses have dominated the understanding of honour related oppression in the past ten years: a gender discourse, a value-based discourse, and an intersectional discourse. Furthermore, it has been clear, through public debates and media reports, that the issue of honour oppression has caused intense conflict within the Swedish Left Party. Through debate articles publicized in the media in 2015 and 2016 by different members of the Left Party, discussions of how honour oppression should be understood and handled intensified within the party and became public. The conflict surrounding honour oppression within the Left Party is seen as especially interesting for this thesis due to the Party´s outspoken antiracist and feminist identity. Thus, the purpose of this thesis was to analyse debate articles publicized by different party members of the Swedish Left Party from 2015 and 2016 through a discourse theoretical framework based on the three dominating discourses found in previous research. A subsidiary purpose was to analyse the opportunities and limitations of the different discourses found in the debate articles articulated by the different party members. Through a discourse analysis of 13 debate articles two discourses where found: a patriarchal discourse and a cultural- and religious discourse. The results of the analysis reproduce discursive patterns shown in previous research which indicates that the general understanding of honour oppression is relatively fixed. Finally, it is suggested that future research should focus on mapping out the extent of honour oppression in Swedish society and effective ways to handle the issue so that future discussions of the problem hopefully can become less polarized and more pragmatically oriented.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2020. , p. 37
Keywords [sv]
Hedersförtryck, hedersvåld, Vänsterpartiet, diskursanalys, diskursteori, könsmakt, kultur, värderingar, intersektionalitet
National Category
Political Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-78337OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-78337DiVA, id: diva2:1441823
Subject / course
Political Science
Presentation
2020-06-09, 15:10
Supervisors
Examiners
2020-06-172020-06-162020-06-17Bibliographically approved