Att samverka kring våldsbejakande extremism : En kvalitativ diskursanalys av svenska strategier och handlingsplaner

Sammanfattning: This essay studies the discourse about cooperation with the civil society within strategies and action plans considering violent extremism produced by the Swedish state and four different Swedish municipalities. The study also considers if some special actor from the civil society is mentioned more often than others in terms of cooperation. The analysis is implemented through a critical discourse analysis according to Fariclough and contextualized through Deans version of Foucaults theory about governmentality. The result shows that the discourse about cooperation used by the Swedish state impacts on the discourse used by the municipalities even though the municipalities use less harsh and imperative formulations. Religious communities are mentioned more often than other actors in terms of cooperation partners even though the documents rarely specify what kind of religious community they mean. This can partly be explained through the concept of “violent extremism” which leads to problems in actual cooperation and to feelings of alienation and stigmatization within different communities, especially Muslim.