Missing people : En kvalitativ text- och bildanalys om representation och vithetsnormer på omslagen av Kommunalarbetaren år 2017

• Main Author: Al-Malki Gunnarsson, Nadja
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Södertörns högskola, Genusvetenskap 2020
• Subjects: Workers; trade union; representations; stereotypes; racializing discourses; Gender Studies; Genusstudier
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-44467

The purpose of this essay is to examine how racialized workers are represented in the magazine Kommunalarbetaren which is a part of the Swedish trade union Kommunal. The covers from twenty issues of this magazine published in 2017 were analyzed to study if the representation of these workers was affected by discourses of white normativity. The study is based on theories of intersectionality by Kimberlé Crenshaw and representations and stereotypification by Stuart Hall. My result shows how work is exposed as something white people do and with dichotomies where one is represented as either white, Swedish worker or as a refugee, the latter having vague subject position and as someone who recently arrived in Sweden. The presence, participation and labour of people of color seem to be missing and be a blind spot for the magazine.