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    Constructing Rural Identities – A Diverse Narrative
    (2016-07-05) Steitz, Selma; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
    So far, rural people and communities have not received much consideration within the field of gender studies while urban individuals and their lifestyles have been normalised. I argue that the rural space inhabits a huge variety of people who deserve to be recognised within the field and can contribute to the production of new knowledge. Therefore it is my aim to study people who live in the countryside, whereby I examine and analyse how they construct their rural identities. Also, I want to see how they relate to gender norms within their society and how that might influence them in their rural identities. I have done semi-structured in-depth interviews with five people in a rural area in southwestern Germany, who gave me an account of their rural lives and what living in a rural space means to them. These demonstrate how diverse experiences in one rural space can be and consequently how differently rural identities can be produced. I come to the conclusion that rural identity depends very much on the intersections of time and space, who, in this case, are highly intertwined with age, class, gender, the body and sexuality. Moreover, I can detect that concepts like home, the rural idyll, nature and the binary between rural and urban are involved in constructing and giving meaning to rural identity.
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    From vulnerable to criminal A discourse analysis of unaccompanied children in Swedish newspaper editorials 2015/2016
    (2019-10-10) Abiri, Sara; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
    This master’s thesis in gender studies seeks to critically analyze and problematize the general discourse on so called unaccompanied children in the Swedish context, as it was represented in newspaper editorials during six months between the years 2015 and 2016. The epistemological standpoint of the thesis is a social constructionist one, in which reality is created and recreated in language and discourse. This standpoint is combined with a theoretical framework of theories on different kinds of Othering and the method of Foucauldian discourse analysis in order to reach the aim. The aim of the thesis is to show how processes of power/knowledge in discourse (re)produce knowledge and assumptions that are laden with stereotypical preconceptions about the Other. The interaction of assumptions about power structures such as race, gender and age leads to the representation and understanding of unaccompanied children as in every way other to the nation state Sweden and the Swedish population, and as in essence a problem that requires measures of institutionalized control. The thesis find that the othering within discourse additionally form very limited subject positions for unaccompanied children. Not only do the findings of the thesis show that unaccompanied children are not recognized as children, they are predominantly represented to be and understood as culturally other men (rather than boys) and as a threat to the imagined community that is the nation state Sweden.