Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
New Course, New Discourse, New Racism?: Right-Wing Alternative Media in Sweden
University West, School of Business, Economics and IT, Divison of Law, Economics, Statistics and Politics.
University West, School of Business, Economics and IT, Divison of Law, Economics, Statistics and Politics.
2019 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

Like elsewhere in Europe, the tides of nationalist right-wing rhetoric in Sweden have become instrumental in generating a wave of anti-liberal and anti-immigration sentiments in politics and media. In particular, one branch of right-wing alternative media has become a breeding ground for normalizing such rhetoric. Does the anti-immigration stance in such media disguise racist inclinations? In this thesis we examine the discourse of three right-wing alternative media sites in Sweden to explore the possible employment of different types of racism in their articles. By taking the constructivist viewpoint and adopting the post-colonial conceptions of the 'Self' and the 'Other', racist discourse was analyzed and characterized as either biological or cultural. From these two theories, we derived concepts concerning descriptions of contemporary and ideal Swedish society that will be used as further indicators of racist discourses. In this single case study, 94 articles from Fria Tider, Nya Tider, and Samhällsnytt were analyzed on the topics of immigration, integration and crime through a qualitative content analysis. The results show that most of the articles contain cultural racist discourse.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2019. , p. 62
Keywords [en]
right-wing alternative media, post-colonial theory, biological racism, cultural racism, nationalism, qualitative content analysis.
National Category
Political Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-14113Local ID: EIS501OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-14113DiVA, id: diva2:1337712
Subject / course
Political science
Educational program
International Programme in Politics and Economics
Supervisors
Examiners
Available from: 2019-07-23 Created: 2019-07-16 Last updated: 2019-07-23Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(711 kB)490 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 711 kBChecksum SHA-512
39f603fbf4d6a7e397744c4af1b8e86cc7adbc5dc62427eca07d38d73d891dedde0a49a8b291eeb8341eee81a2babcbd96fb7acdad3223ca8a76983b4d5d72bd
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

By organisation
Divison of Law, Economics, Statistics and Politics
Political Science

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 490 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

urn-nbn

Altmetric score

urn-nbn
Total: 1468 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf