EXTREMISTEN OCH DEN ANDRE - En kritisk diskursanalys av Samtalskompassen som medel mot våldsbejakande extremism.

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine Samtalskompassen as a crime-preventing measure implemented in Sweden by the national coordinator against violent extremism. This includes studying how street-level bureaucrats and professionals are to exercise social control to prevent violent extremism, and the complex problems of preventing violent protest without preventing all forms of protest. This is to be done through the following questions: How does Samtalskompassen create an image of people at risk of being drawn to violent extremism? How does Samtalskompassen suggest that professionals such as social secretaries, teachers, community police, school nurses etc. are to prevent radicalisation towards violent extremism? Is it possible to, considering the earlier mentioned risk for preventing all forms of activism, to understand Samtalskompassen as repression of activism as well as crime-preventing? The method used in this study is Norman Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis. The method is also partly inspired by Jacques Derrida’s idea of interpreting implicit meanings from what is explicitly stated in a text. The material used is the website Samtalskompassen, which is the educational material the crime preventing measure is based on. Theoretically I make use of concepts and perspectives from both criminology and social movement studies. The first result is that the image of a person at risk for being drawn to violent extremism is based on an expression of collective identity connected to the movements in Samtalskompassen labelled violent. The second result is that professionals are to exercise crime prevention through socialisation and control. The final result is that Samtalskompassen can be seen as including different forms of repression: soft repression such as channeling, as well as coercive repression.