I C-­?uppsats ser fo?rfattaren na?rmre pa? hur fans tolkar och diskuterar rockgruppen kents la?ttexter. Tanken a?r att so?ka efter teman som de flesta fans tycks identifiera och sedan, med hja?lp av Laclau och Mouffes diskursteori se na?rmre pa? hur tolkningarna skiljer sig a?t, trots ett gemensamt ?grundtema.? Till syftet ho?r a?ven att se pa? vilka sa?tt dessa diskussioner och tolkningar ga?r att sammankoppla till identitet och identifikation.Tre tydliga teman gick att finna bland fansens tolkningar: ka?rlek, ensamhet/uppva?xt samt la?ngtan och dro?mmar. Samtliga tre teman tycktes tolkas i huvudsak med antingen en negativ eller positiv grundsyn, da?r samtliga teman/fenomen a?ven gick att sammankoppla med varandra.

The purpose of this thesis was to examine the ways in which the constructions of heterosexuality and gender in three Disney movies about princesses affect the power relations between men and women in the movies, and how discourses on gender and heterosexuality have changed over time. Research questions were:How do characters in the movies talk about gender and heterosexuality?How does the interplay between gender and heterosexuality affect the power relations between men and women in the movies?What are the likenesses and differences between movies from different time periods?Discourses were mapped out using a model based on Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe?s political theories. These discourses were then analyzed with a theoretical framework consisting of Yvonne Hirdman?s concept of gender system and gender contracts, Judith Butler?s view on the heterosexual matrix and an understanding of power relations based on Michel Foucault.

The aim of this study was to investigate how the position of the preschool teacher could come across in interviews with six teachers about their assignment to document and evaluate the preschool activity. The research done so far in this area shows that it can be a complex and difficult part of the preschool teachers work. A dilemma often described is how the teachers can be able to analyze and document the children´s learning with the aim to evaluate and develop the preschool activity without judging and mapping the children. A special focus of the study was to see how the methods and dsicourses described by the teachers possibly could affect the teachers´s position in the area of documentation and evaluation. To analyze the empirical data Ernesto Laclau (1935-2014) & Chantal Mouffe´s discourse theory was used, a prespective witch also figured to be the theoretical foundation of the master thesis.

Den här uppsatsen undersöker hur Valerie Solanas verk Scum manifest läses och talas om i Sverige, sedan det gavs ut på Svenska år 2003, Detta genom att göra en Hermeneutisk tolkning av det offentliga samtalet om texten. Materialet består av alla tidningsartiklar som publicerats sedan Januari 2003 fram till i Mars 2008 som explcit behandlar manifestet, dock har sådant tagits bort som behandlar det skönlitterära verket Drömfakulteten (2006) samt olika teateruppsättningar som också handlar om Solanas.Som teoretiska utgångspunkter används Kate Milletts teori om det Patriarkala samhället, Laclau och Mouffes Diskursteori, samt Pierre Bourdieus teori om Symboliskt våld. Metoden består av en hermeneutisk tolkning som utgår ifrån detta tolkningsmönster. Den centrala diskussionen rör sig kring hur manifestet skall tolkas, som litterärt verk eller politisk pamplett. Vilken läsning som görs verkar bero på vilka intentioner läsaren har.

A general topic underlying this master thesis is how the public library is being transformed through the subversion and re-articualtion of meaning according to different discourses. The aim of the study can be divided in to levels of analysis. At the first level, the aim is to investigate how categories such as users, needs and vision are articulated in a specific case ?the visionary project Garaget in Malmö, a project which in part include a public library inspired by Idea Store. The next level of analysis sets out to explore how the case of Garaget is related to a totalizing discursive struggle over meaning within the element the public library.

The purpose of the thesis Masculinities ? Gender and its Impact on the Social conditions of individuals is to perform a critical study of how gendered norms influence the social conditions of individuals. This has been done by a problematization and the attempt to answer the question of how the hegemonical masculinity can be analyzed as a discourse, and how the structural aspects of this discourse inflict on the social conditions of masculinities.The question was divided into the analytical themes: the boarders of the discourse, the institutionalization of the discourse, the actuation of the discourse and the agents of the discourse. The theoretical frame is constituted by the theory of discourse by Michel Foucault, the theory of the hegemonical masculinity by R.W. Connell and a subversive identity theory by Judith Butler.

En Tv-serie kan spegla samtiden och vad som ingår i den. Serien Portkod 1321 riktar sig till ungdomar och ger genom karaktärer, miljöer och händelser en bild av synen på ungdomar. En central roll i bilden är hur identiteter skildras och skapas. Utgångspunkten i uppsatsen är socialstrukturalismen och teorier om genus, representation och interpellation. Utifrån Laclau och Mouffes diskursteori och begrepp har en totalanalys av Portkod 1321 genomförts, där centrala byggstenar i skapandet av identiteterna stockholmare, tjej och kille identifierats.

The aim of this Master's thesis is to examine the contemporary educational tasks of the Swedish public library as they manifest in Swedish library journals. Our main question at issue is: Which educational discourses are there? And in relation to our main question: how do the concepts of information literacy, lifelong learning and adult education relate to each other? Is there an antagonism between the public library's duty to supply fiction as opposed to non-fiction? and: What are the consequences of these discourses in the service provided by the library?Our theoretical starting-point is the discourse theory as proposed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. We analyse 39 texts from four Swedish library journals: Ikoner, bis, DIK-forum and Biblioteksbladet. The analysis is done in two phases.

Syfte: att undersöka hur talet om modersmålsläraruppdraget framträder bland fyra olika yrkeskategorier på grundskolans verksamhetsnivå. Teori: Undersökningen utgår från Laclau & Mouffes diskursteoretiska modell, förklarad genom Winther-Jorgensen & Philips (2000).Teoretiska begrepp centrala för undersökningen, såsom annanhet och kosmopolitism har hämtats från Todd (2008, 2010), medan Elmeroths (2008) diskussion om etnisk maktordning och monokulturell norm har varit ett sätt att förklara betingelserna kring den svenska undervisningskontexten. Bauman (2013) har fått bistå undersökningen med en diskussion kring mångkulturellt samhälle, skillnad och universalitet. Metod: Undersökningen omfattar utsagor från fyra olika yrkeskategorier verksamma i skolan, två modersmålslärare, två lärare, två specialpedagoger och två rektorer. Samtalsmaterialet har utgått från frågeområdet: modersmålslärarens uppdrag i skolan.

Title: Merkel with NSA on the telephoneThe aim of this essay is to study how Angela Merkel is being portrayed in context of NSAs surveillance in the Swedish newspapers Dagens Nyheter and Aftonbladet. The time period for the study is from the 24th of October to the 7th of November in the autumn of 2013. To concretize the aim three questions was formulated, how Angela Merkel was being portrayed in the material, how NSAs surveillance of Angela Merkel was being portrayed in the material and how different statements for various individuals in the material could affect the truth about the surveillance. The method chosen to study these questions was a discourse analysis, which also would contain parts of a linguistic analysis. The theories to support the method were Laclau & Mouffes discourse theory and Michel Foucault?s genealogical discourse analysis.

The purpose of this thesis was to examine the ways in which the constructions of heterosexuality and gender in three Disney movies about princesses affect the power relations between men and women in the movies, and how discourses on gender and heterosexuality have changed over time. Research questions were:How do characters in the movies talk about gender and heterosexuality?How does the interplay between gender and heterosexuality affect the power relations between men and women in the movies?What are the likenesses and differences between movies from different time periods?Discourses were mapped out using a model based on Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe?s political theories. These discourses were then analyzed with a theoretical framework consisting of Yvonne Hirdman?s concept of gender system and gender contracts, Judith Butler?s view on the heterosexual matrix and an understanding of power relations based on Michel Foucault.

Detta examensarbete är en diskursanalys av läroplanerna Lgr 80, Lpo 94 och Lgr 11. Det syftar till att undersöka mening och betydelsebildning kring begreppen miljö och hållbar utveckling i läroplanen, samt att undersöka hur detta har förändrats efter att begreppet hållbar utveckling myntades i samband med Brundtlandskommissionen 1987. Forskningsöversikten presenterar etableringen av hållbar utveckling, och ger perspektiv på hur dess tre dimensioner i form av ekologi, ekonomi och en social dimension har tillkommit. Forskningsöversikten presenterar även miljödidaktiska perspektiv på hållbar utveckling och hur begreppet har tagit plats i skolan. I forskningsöversikten presenteras även internationella influenser av begreppens innebörd och mening.

The main aim of the thesis is, first, to present a theoretical and methodological perspective for the study of postmodern theory in historiography; second, to discuss and evaluate earlier research on the subject; and third, to show that historians must be more self-reflexive about their explicit as well as implicit theoretical and philosphical premises. My theoretical and methodological inspiration comes mainly from three directions: first, the discourse analytic theory propagated by the political theorists Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe; second, concepts from Lacanian psychoanalysis as propagated by the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek; and, finally, the later Ludwig Wittgensteins theory of language.Using this perspective a minor case study is made based on five dissertations in history at Lund University from 1999 to 2006 as source material. This in order to indicate a strong influence of postmodern theory in Swedish historiography. It is further argued that it is legitimate to speak of one postmodernism, not in spite, but because of the fact that postmodernism is a semantically highly paradoxical, contradictory and unstable phenomenon. The main results of the analysis can be summarized as follows: (i) earlier research on the subject is simplified and unreflected and must be abandoned, because (ii) postmodernism seen as a discursive whole, i.e.

The purpose of this thesis is to study how today?s consumer society can be understood from ananalysis of the phenomenon Every Day Carry (EDC). The aim is thus to problematize the daily useof the artifacts that surrounds us and investigate how these can be understood as networks of humanand non-human actors, aswell as identity- and meaning-making practices in today?s consumersociety.The theoretical and methodical framework is built upon an eclectic variety of consumptiontheories,Michel Callon?s, John Law?s and Bruno Latour?s work on Actor-Network-Theory,Discourse analysis inspired by Michel Foucault, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe and anethnographic methodology specifically adapted for online research. The empirical material consistsof photographs and commentaries from two EDC blogs aswell as commentaries regarding EDCfrom a commentary field on Youtube.com.

TitleSystems, Stability and Power. The Discourse of Information in Organizing Knowledge.AbstractThe aim of this Master's thesis is to inquire into the consequences of an unequal distribution of power between information discourses in the field of knowledge organisation. A deconstruction of Jennifer Rowley's and John Farrows introductory textbook Organizing Knowledge from 2000 is related to the major discourses of information in LIS. Questions posed in this study are: What meaning is ascribed to information in the material studied? Which information discourses are given a dominant position? Which are excluded? and: How does this affect the construction of the library and information science student's identity, in relation to practices of knowledge organisation? The theoretical framework is provided by Ernesto Laclau's and Chantal Mouffe's theory of discourse and combined with techniques for text analysis originating from the work of Norman Fairclough.The analysis reveals a strong domination of a cognitive discourse of information that underlines the importance of information systems for the organisation of knowledge.