Urbefolkningars exklusion inom hållbar utveckling : En jämförande diskursanalys om maktrelationen mellan inhemska och västerländska kunskaper i en dominant kunskapsdiskurs om ekologisk hållbarhet

This paper seeks to understand how indigenous knowledge tends to be excluded in a global dominant Western discourse of knowledge. Indigenous people have due to European colonialism, racism and power been structurally marginalized and oppressed for centuries. Hence, social ideas and practices about W...

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Main Author: Hellgren Nilsson, Aemelia
Format: Bachelor Thesis
Language:Swedish
Published: Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier (from 2013) 2020
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spelling ftkarlstadsuniv:oai:DiVA.org:kau-78485 2023-07-16T04:00:45+02:00 Urbefolkningars exklusion inom hållbar utveckling : En jämförande diskursanalys om maktrelationen mellan inhemska och västerländska kunskaper i en dominant kunskapsdiskurs om ekologisk hållbarhet Hellgren Nilsson, Aemelia 2020 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-78485 swe swe Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier (from 2013) http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-78485 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess diskurs makt inhemska kunskaper västerländsk kunskap västerländsk dominans världsbilder Sociology Sociologi Student thesis info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis text 2020 ftkarlstadsuniv 2023-06-26T22:12:27Z This paper seeks to understand how indigenous knowledge tends to be excluded in a global dominant Western discourse of knowledge. Indigenous people have due to European colonialism, racism and power been structurally marginalized and oppressed for centuries. Hence, social ideas and practices about Western knowledge have emerged as more legitimate than any other form of knowledge. Using discourse analysis as a method, I do investigate various articles from Western, American Native and Sami people newspapers. The purpose is to visualize their power relationship and perceptional differences of ecological sustainability. By analyzing their choices of words in the articles, I interpret their attitudes and put them in a broader societal context trough sociological and postcolonial theoretical contributions. The scholars I use are Foucault, Mannheim, Laclau & Mouffe and Said. Therefore, this paper explains the Western dominance in the discourse of knowledge as a product of social practices in terms of power, discourses and postcolonialism, rather than an objectifying scientific truth. Consequently, this can hopefully display other contributions of solutions from indigenous knowledge to contemporary issues our world is facing. Thus, my thesis problematizes how the exclusion of indigenous knowledge in the dominant discourse of knowledge negatively can affect ecological sustainability in terms of dismissed additional indigenous solutions. The purpose is to create bigger hybridity with a diversity of ideas, creativity and contributions to sustainable development. I argue that Western legitimacy is just an idea hanging on long social processes of discourses, power and social constructions of the reality. By clarifying this phenomenon with empirical shreds of evidence, I hope to contribute with new understandings about the marginalized position indigenous knowledge possess and amplify indigenous discourse in the dominant Western discourse of knowledge. Bachelor Thesis sami Karlstad University: Publications (DIVA)
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Sociology
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Hellgren Nilsson, Aemelia
Urbefolkningars exklusion inom hållbar utveckling : En jämförande diskursanalys om maktrelationen mellan inhemska och västerländska kunskaper i en dominant kunskapsdiskurs om ekologisk hållbarhet
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description This paper seeks to understand how indigenous knowledge tends to be excluded in a global dominant Western discourse of knowledge. Indigenous people have due to European colonialism, racism and power been structurally marginalized and oppressed for centuries. Hence, social ideas and practices about Western knowledge have emerged as more legitimate than any other form of knowledge. Using discourse analysis as a method, I do investigate various articles from Western, American Native and Sami people newspapers. The purpose is to visualize their power relationship and perceptional differences of ecological sustainability. By analyzing their choices of words in the articles, I interpret their attitudes and put them in a broader societal context trough sociological and postcolonial theoretical contributions. The scholars I use are Foucault, Mannheim, Laclau & Mouffe and Said. Therefore, this paper explains the Western dominance in the discourse of knowledge as a product of social practices in terms of power, discourses and postcolonialism, rather than an objectifying scientific truth. Consequently, this can hopefully display other contributions of solutions from indigenous knowledge to contemporary issues our world is facing. Thus, my thesis problematizes how the exclusion of indigenous knowledge in the dominant discourse of knowledge negatively can affect ecological sustainability in terms of dismissed additional indigenous solutions. The purpose is to create bigger hybridity with a diversity of ideas, creativity and contributions to sustainable development. I argue that Western legitimacy is just an idea hanging on long social processes of discourses, power and social constructions of the reality. By clarifying this phenomenon with empirical shreds of evidence, I hope to contribute with new understandings about the marginalized position indigenous knowledge possess and amplify indigenous discourse in the dominant Western discourse of knowledge.
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author Hellgren Nilsson, Aemelia
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author_sort Hellgren Nilsson, Aemelia
title Urbefolkningars exklusion inom hållbar utveckling : En jämförande diskursanalys om maktrelationen mellan inhemska och västerländska kunskaper i en dominant kunskapsdiskurs om ekologisk hållbarhet
title_short Urbefolkningars exklusion inom hållbar utveckling : En jämförande diskursanalys om maktrelationen mellan inhemska och västerländska kunskaper i en dominant kunskapsdiskurs om ekologisk hållbarhet
title_full Urbefolkningars exklusion inom hållbar utveckling : En jämförande diskursanalys om maktrelationen mellan inhemska och västerländska kunskaper i en dominant kunskapsdiskurs om ekologisk hållbarhet
title_fullStr Urbefolkningars exklusion inom hållbar utveckling : En jämförande diskursanalys om maktrelationen mellan inhemska och västerländska kunskaper i en dominant kunskapsdiskurs om ekologisk hållbarhet
title_full_unstemmed Urbefolkningars exklusion inom hållbar utveckling : En jämförande diskursanalys om maktrelationen mellan inhemska och västerländska kunskaper i en dominant kunskapsdiskurs om ekologisk hållbarhet
title_sort urbefolkningars exklusion inom hållbar utveckling : en jämförande diskursanalys om maktrelationen mellan inhemska och västerländska kunskaper i en dominant kunskapsdiskurs om ekologisk hållbarhet
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