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Det revolutionära språket: En studie om hur normkritiskt språk potentiellt förändrar världen och ger diskursivt utrymme genom subversiva performativa handlingar
Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Gender Studies.
2020 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

In Sweden, the language of norm critique has gained increasing influence over the past ten years in connection with queer theoretical thinking and norm critical pedagogy becoming part of gender equality work and equality work in the (pre)school system. In this essay I examine, through interviews, how people who use norm-critical language view the normativity in the Swedish language with the main purpose of seeing if it works and how it is achieved. The essay also examines how norm-critical language users try to change the language to become more inclusive and how all this can be understood from the perspective of Butler’s performativity theory and ideas about power and normativity. The results of the survey show that norm-critical language works and contributes to the goal; a world where everyone gets a place and recognition in both language and physical space. We can see how children become subjects and are included in norm-critical language and how the binary perception of gender is set in motion, which leads to greater scope for action and inclusion. Furthermore, it is stated that there is a danger in the goal’s new normativity which leads to the conclusion that norm-critical language is and has to be a constant process and under constant reflection. As it is a small study and a large topic, I urge further research on norm-critical language.

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2020. , p. 39
Keywords [en]
performativity, norm critical language, activism, Butler, queer theory, heteronormativity, barnslig queerteori
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Gender Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-41805OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-41805DiVA, id: diva2:1464085
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Gender Studies
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Humanities, Theology
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Available from: 2020-09-04 Created: 2020-09-04 Last updated: 2020-09-04Bibliographically approved

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