Choose the right methodological tools to answer your research question and know how to use them with this anthology of textual analysis approaches. 

Each chapter provides not only relevant theoretical background behind each methodology, but also its advantages and challenges, its potential applications, and its relationship to studying social phenomenon. Through step-by-step worked examples of real-world data, you get an in-depth window into each method in action and learn how to apply the same techniques successfully and confidently in your own research. 

Methods include: Content analysis, Narrative analysis, Critical discourse studies, Multimodal discourse analysis 

Swedes take significant pride in their country’s animal welfare standards, often touting their system as the ‘best in the world’. But what happens when this self-image is challenged and needs to reclaim its legitimacy? This article deals with the media reporting about the Swedish “Pig Scandal” in 2009. The scandal broke out after animal rights activists revealed extensive mistreatment of pigs in the meat industry. Bringing a psychoanalytically informed discourse theory to bear on the ensuing struggle over the meaning of the event, I argue that the restoration of the Swedish animal welfare discourse played out partly in the psychic register of fantasy. By displacing the animal cruelty inherent to the social order itself onto a series of external enemy-obstacles, the utopian promise of harmonious human–animal relations could be salvaged. In addition to this empirical contribution, the article introduces a Lacanian perspective on the role of lack, enjoyment, and fantasy in politics. The aim in this regard is to demonstrate the relevance of these psychoanalytical concepts as crucial resources for critique in the social sciences. 

Vi lever i en tid av kriser. Växande klassklyftor, politisk polarisering, stormaktskonflikter och hotet om ekologiskt sammanbrott skapar ett tillstånd av maktlöshet, där livet reduceras till att reagera på hotfulla skeenden utanför vår kontroll.

Situationen är egentligen inte ny, utan typisk för kapitalismen. Men där tidigare generationer kunde finna trygghet i ideologiska övertygelser och egna erfarenheter av organisering, lockas människor i dag av tomma högerauktoritära löften om säkerhet och revansch.

Den här boken pekar ut en annan väg. En i grunden rättvisare ordning blir möjlig när vi återupptäcker kraften i kollektivt handlande. Rörelsesocialism är ett manifest för samhällsförändring underifrån.