| dc.description.abstract | Terrorism and the discourse about War on Terror are global challenges, which I wanted to
study in the Swedish locality, bringing together perspectives on the issues in a new way. The
aim of this study is to analyse, compare and critically discuss how two newspapers
constructed the perpetrators of two attacks in Sweden during the 2010s, Lundin Pettersson
and Akilov, using theories of othering and stigmatisation. The study is written within a
postcolonial and social constructivist framework, using theoretical tools from theories on
othering, stigmatisation, racialisation, orientalism and madness. The study analyses articles
from Expressen and Aftonbladet, two of the biggest Swedish newspapers, using critical
textual analysis in the form of ideal type analysis. The result of the ideal type analysis were
The suicidal failed lonely wolf, The far right aggressive racist , The ideologically motivated
terrorist, The failed infidel muslim, The unhonorable expelled Uzbek and The aggressive
jihadist who wanted to become a martyr . The analysis concluded that both perpetrators were
othered and stigmatised, using both techniques of the construction of the mad and of
orientalism. Lundin Pettersson was partly constructed as insane, and Akilov was completely
racialised and exposed to orientalism. The discussion concluded that this othering and
stigmatisation could have both practical and discursive consequences. | sv |
