Essays about: "Elisabeth Hasselström"

Found 1 essay containing the words Elisabeth Hasselström.

  1. 1. Representation Construction of Indigeneity by State vs Sámi Governments : Communicating Indigeneity through Official Government Discourse in Norway and Sweden

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Elisabeth Hasselström; [2022]
    Keywords : Critical Discourse Analysis; Indigenous peoples; Official Documents; Political Discourse; Representation; Communication; Government; Sweden Norway;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to examine the representation of the Sámi population as constructed in the official political discourses of the Swedish and Norwegian Governments and the Sámi Parliaments. As Sámi policies and Sámi political action have historically been limited by the dominating postcolonial conception of the Sámi by the nation-state, this thesis evaluates how the Governments of Sweden and Norway construct a representation of the Sámi in comparison to the representation offered by elected Sámi representatives to ascertain how the sociohistorical perspectives of the majority population reflect the conception of the Sámi population today. READ MORE