This essay aims to examine what subject positions are possible within the Discourse of relationship anarchy. Through semi-structured interviews with four people who define themselves as relationship anarchists I've made a Discourse analysis to determine how these relationship anarchists explain what, in the Discourse they?re in, is described as an relationship anarchistic way of being, what isn?t and how they relate to this. Relationship anarchy is described as an ideology based on freedom. It is about the right to define their relationships as they like, as something constantly changing and that does not hold a specific value based on its label.

This essay aims to examine what subject positions are possible within the Discourse of relationship anarchy. Through semi-structured interviews with four people who define themselves as relationship anarchists I've made a Discourse analysis to determine how these relationship anarchists explain what, in the Discourse they?re in, is described as an relationship anarchistic way of being, what isn?t and how they relate to this. Relationship anarchy is described as an ideology based on freedom. It is about the right to define their relationships as they like, as something constantly changing and that does not hold a specific value based on its label.

This Master?s thesis examines library courses, a relatively new form of user education. Our focus is on the pedagogical point-of-views reflected in the text in these library courses. The primary purpose of the study is to analyze the pedagogical Discourse displayed in the library courses to determine if the perspective is behavioural, cognitive, constructive or socio cultural. We are investigating if the pedagogical Discourse differs from course to course, and if so, how are they different? In addition we aim to find out how the pedagogical Discourse in the library courses relates to university websites and governmental and legal texts, at the discursive and social practice level.

The aim of this master?s thesis is to examine the Discourses aboutthe future of Malmö City Library expressed by the chief librariansSven Nilsson and Elsebeth Tank. Furthermore, our intention is tostudy the relation between the two. The questions posed in thestudy are: how does chief librarian Sven Nilsson express the futureof Malmö public library between 1989-1997? How does chieflibrarian Elsebeth Tank express the future of Malmö City Librarybetween 2008-2010? How does Sven Nilsson?s and ElsebethTank?s thoughts and visions of the future correlate?Our theoretical and methodical building ground is in the Discourseanalytical field, with Ernesto Laclau?s and Chantal Mouffe?stheories about Discourse and society, as startingpoint.

The aim of this study is to analyze the Discourses of activists who work against female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in Tanzania. The study focus on the Discourses that arise during interviews about FGM/C with five activists. To examine this we asked the following questions: What Discourses are presented in the interviews? How do these Discourses interact together ? are there any Discourse conflicts? How do the activists talk about FGM/C in comparison to our western view? The study is based on Discourse theory. We also use feminism and postcolonialism as theories in our analyze.

The aim of this master thesis is to investigate changes within four Discourses identified in the curriculum material of the Swedish library education in Borås Bibliotekarielinjen dating from 1977 and 1985 and its successor Library and Information Science Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap dating from 1995, 1999. My method used is a text analytic method primarily derived from the Discourse theory of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, yet with addition of tools from the critical Discourse analysis of Fairclough. By identifying three floating signifiers within the material, i.e information, library, and librarian, and thereafter identifying their fixation, a pattern of resemblance and diversity in the fixating signs appeared between different courses of the curriculum dating from 1999. Hence I could establish an order of Discourse consisting of four library Discourses, a knowledge organisation Discourse, a user Discourse, a society Discourse and a management Discourse. Using this discursive order as a pattern, I could trace these four Discourses back in time within the material dating from 1995, 1985 and 1977.

The purpose of this essay was to examine the role of the acquisition of the Swedish language for integration of adult immigrants given by the seven parties currently in the parliament and other players on the field. The questions were meant to bring light upon the arguments used by the different players concerning the role of the Swedish language, to enlighten which Discourses that are constructed, and the contradictions that exist between these. We parted from a postmodern position and used social constructionism to back up our method and theory of analysis; Discourse theory. The results revealed three different Discourses concerning the role of the Swedish language in the integration process; the liberal Discourse, the discrimination Discourse and the social democratic Discourse. The liberal Discourse claims that immigrants have a responsibility to learn Swedish to be able to achieve employment and to provide for themselves.

The aim of this essay is to examine different Discourses concerning adolescents and library youth services that can be identified in the material. 73 articles from the Swedish library journal, Biblioteksbladet, were analysed trough a model. The different articles were all published between 1916 and 2005. The analysis revealed a result that consists of four Discourses about adolescents and youth services at different libraries between 1916 and 2005: the library as fostering Discourse, a new era Discourse, the visiting activities Discourse and the young adult Discourse. The library as fostering Discourse is based on the idea that the library itself doesnt need to change the service to adolescents, instead the adolescents are supposed to change into good library users.

The aim of this Masters thesis is to examine the user service Discourses in the field of public libraries that can be identified in four Swedish library journals. Also which underlying causes that control the Discourses and the consequences of them are examined. Questions in this study are: which Discourses can be found, what characterises them, what kind of different Discourses concerning technology in society control the user service Discourses and what are the consequences of them. The theoretical starting-point is Ernesto Laclaus and Chantal Mouffes Discourse theory. The method is text analytic.

The aim of this Masters thesis is to examine the librarian Discourses that can be identified in the job advertisements of today, to examine how the Discourses differ and also how these Discourses might influence the librarian profession and its status. The method of investigation is a qualitative analysis of printed sources, using Ernesto Laclaus and Chantal Mouffes Discourse theory as well as the theory of professions as a theoretical base. The thesis shows that two Discourses can be identified in job advertisements for 2004, one public librarian Discourse and one scientific librarian Discourse. The major difference between the two Discourses are work tasks where the public librarian Discourse very often contains areas of responsibility and development work, whereas the scientific librarian Discourse often contains administrative work tasks. Other differences include a great demand for driving licences and an interest in children and youth in the public librarian Discourse, something which is not asked for at all in the scientific librarian Discourse where there is a great demand for knowledge of languages instead.

This study puts emphasis on an international Discourse describing how cities frequently compete against each other, and also describing factors that cities should enhance to make themselves more competitive. The Discourse in this study has therefore been used to seek understanding how three different municipalities Borlänge, Karlstad and Malmö strive for growth by applying central factors from the Discourse on the municipalities strategic documents. What the study shows is that the central factors from the Discourse strongly imprints the strategic documents, but the presence of the factors varies between the municipalities and also to what meaning that lies behind the strategic goals..

The aim of this Masters thesis is to identify Discourses within the school library field and to analyse which professional identities the Discourses result in for school librarians. The empirical data consist of 71 articles from Swedish journals concerning school libraries and school librarians, between the years 2000-2003. The theory and method used is a Discourse analysis which is inspired by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. This form of Discourse analysis was chosen since it was useful when identity was the focus of study. The analysis is accomplished in three steps.

The aim of this essay is to analyze the discursive production of Food, within the Slow food movement, by its members. Through a Discourse analysis inspired, theoretically and methodically, by Michel Foucault, this essay examines how the idea of food ? that is ?what should be eaten? ? in opposite to what can be eaten, is constructed within by Slow Food members in the Gothenburg area. The essay analysis how Slow Food?s food Discourse is structured and what results this formation has on food within this Discourse.

The aim of this Masters thesis is to study opinions about the Swedish hospital libraries and their activities for the patients, in a selection of Swedish library journal articles. The theoretical starting point is grounded in Laclau and Mouffes Discourse theory. The empirical material consists of 43 articles from three library journals; Biblioteksbladet, Blänkaren and DIK-forum, published between 1990 and 2004. These are analysed through a reading scheme in four levels. In the empirical material two themes appear; the culture theme and the patient information theme.

This study aims at using Discourse analysis to analyze SFI students attitudes to religion and religiosity in an SFI-context. The questions are: How is the Discourse constructed and maintained by religion and religiosity of SFI students in an SFI context? How do SFI participants experience that their religion has affected their time at SFI?Using a case study approach, interviews were conducted with a group of SFI students. The results show that the religious Discourse in SFI is influenced by the SFI-context and affected based on the current education Discourse that exists there. Furthermore, the Discourse is designed and maintained by the participants private religious beliefs and the religion of the majority of the group, One canhere speak of a strong social unit forming a plausibility structure The power structure that emerges is that the majority has the power to define the significance of religion and place within the SFI context. In the SFI-context the participants view is that religion is something private that should not be expressed in the school environment.