Class struggle in the era of post-politics: Representing the Swedish port conflict in the news media

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Ernesto Abalo, Diana Jacobsson
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Abstract This article addresses how class as a category of conflict and struggle is understood and shaped discursively in mainstream media today. We utilise a case study of how Swedish news media represents the long-lasting conflict in the Swedish labour market between the Swedish Dockworkers’ Union and the employer organisation, Sweden's Ports. Using critical discourse analysis, we show two ways in which class relations are recontextualised in three Swedish newspapers. One is through obscuring class and centring the conflict around business and nationalist discourses, which in the end legitimise a corporate perspective. The other, more marginalised, way is through the critique of class relations that appears in subjective discourse types. This handling of class, we argue, serves the reproduction of a post-political condition.
后政治时代的阶级斗争:在新闻媒体中再现瑞典港口冲突
摘要本文论述了阶级作为一种冲突和斗争的范畴是如何在当今主流媒体中被理解和塑造的。我们利用瑞典新闻媒体如何代表瑞典码头工人工会和雇主组织瑞典港口之间在瑞典劳动力市场上的长期冲突的案例研究。通过批判性话语分析,我们展示了三家瑞典报纸对阶级关系进行文本重构的两种方式。一种是通过模糊阶级,将冲突集中在商业和民族主义话语上,最终使企业观点合法化。另一种更边缘化的方式是通过对主观话语类型中出现的阶级关系的批判。我们认为,这种对阶级的处理是后政治条件的再现。
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Nordicom Review
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