Sökning: "Master signifiers"

Visar resultat 6 - 8 av 8 uppsatser innehållade orden Master signifiers.

  1. 6. Tolerance or truth? : The good, the bad and the political in the discourse of the American Family Association

    Master-uppsats, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Madeleine Roghult; [2012]
    Nyckelord :usa; american politics; new christian right; religious right; the political; tolerance; LGBT; LGBT rights; discrimination; neoliberalism; progress; polarization; discourse analysis; kristna högern; amerikansk politik; usa; tolerans; diskriminering; diskurs; diskursanalys; HBT; HBT rättigheter; populism; högerpopulism; det politiska; nyliberalism; polarisering;

    Sammanfattning : This master’s thesis conducts a discourse analysis on a political organization within the New Christian Right (NCR), the American Family Association (AFA). The purpose of the study is to analyze the conditions of possibility for a politics that aims to prevent progress for LGBT rights and does so by analyzing the political terrain where operations of power produce particular and meaningful political practices. LÄS MER

  2. 7. Kropp & Knopp - En diskursanalys av två aktörers konstruktioner av transsexualism inom ramen för en statlig utredning

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Socialhögskolan

    Författare :Jenny Jalvelius; Lisa Grönlund; [2011]
    Nyckelord :sex reassignment; transsexual; discourse; gender identity; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Authors: Lisa Grönlund and Jenny Jalvelius Title: Body & Mind – A discourse analysis of two participants’ constructions of transsexualism within the frame of a public investigation [translated title] Supervisor: Mats Hilte Assessor: Anna Meeuwisse Lately transsexualism and transsexuals have received increased attention in media and in the field of research and we have aimed to contribute to the understanding of this condition and of how it can be constructed. The phenomenon transsexualism can be understood as a condition where a human being’s sex assignment and body do not agree with the gender identity of this person. LÄS MER

  3. 8. Bibliotekarieutbildningen vid BHS 1977 t.o.m 1999 En diskursteoretisk studie

    Magister-uppsats, Högskolan i Borås/Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan

    Författare :Sofia Olausson; [2004]
    Nyckelord :library and information science; biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER