This lecture explored discourse analysis as used by Maria Eriksson Baaz in her PhD dissertation and Maria Stern in the article, "Gender and Race in European Security Strategy: Europe as a Force for 'Good' ". Maria Stern said that both of these papers were posted on GUL but, unfortunately, I cannot find them.
Example 1: The Paternalism of Partnership by Maria Eriksson Baaz
- Interest/ Passion/ Curiosity
● donor identities within a post-colonial context
● donor identities and their manifestations
● How is development aid playing out in an African context?
-Research Problem
● How are donor identities constructed?
● How do aid workers see themselves in relation to their work with African partners in Tanzania?
● The above is relevant to development studies, aid, and post-colonialism and is both researchable and needed because it addresses gaps in the literature.
-Aim
● The construction of self in relationship to "partners".
-Methods
● Open-ended interviews of aid workers dealing with procedures and daily practices.
● Maria first created the interview texts and then used discourse analysis to analyze them.
-Theoretical underpinings
● Social constructivism
● Divisions between self and other
● The work of Stuart Hall who argues that identity is chosen as well as not chosen.
● Post-colonialism: Traces of colonial discourses are reproduced in current discourses.
-Delimitations
● The study is delimited via the theoretical underpinings.
-Operationalization
● Embedded in theories of post-colonialism
● It is possible to categorize identities such as how the self is represented through the other.
***Note: There is always a risk of finding what you are looking for.***
- Conclusions
● Discourses are complex and not simply post-colonial.
● Partnership neither replicates nor breaks from colonialism but is marked by a colonial past.
Example 2: ""Gender and Race in European Security Strategy: Europe as a Force for 'Good' " by Maria Stern
- Please see article.
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