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    • Battling the race: Stylizing language and coproducing whiteness and colouredness in a freestyle rap performance 

      Williams, Quentin; Stroud, Christopher (American Antrhopological Association, 2015)
      In the last 19 years of post-apartheid South African democracy, race remains an enduring and familiar trope, a point of certainty amid the messy ambiguities of transformation. In the present article, we explore the ...
    • The Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa 

      Stroud, Christopher (University of the Western Cape, 2014)
      There is an urgency in theorising how diversity is negotiated, communicated, and disputed as a matter of everyday ordinariness that is compounded by the clear linkages between diversity, transformation, voice, agency, ...
    • The centre for multilingualism and diversities research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa 

      Stroud, Christopher (University of the Western Cape, 2014)
      There is an urgency in theorising how diversity is negotiated, communicated, and disputed as a matter of everyday ordinariness that is compounded by the clear linkages between diversity, transformation, voice, agency, ...
    • Diversities, affinities and diasporas: a southern lens and methodology for understanding multilingualisms 

      Heugh, Kathleen; Stroud, Christopher (Taylor & Francis, 2018)
      We frame multilingualisms through a growing interest in a linguistics and sociology of the ‘south’ and acknowledge earlier contributions of linguists in Africa, the Américas and Asia who have engaged with human mobility, ...
    • Fanon in drag: Decoloniality in sociolinguistics? 

      Shaikjee, Mooniq; Stroud, Christopher (Wiley, 2017)
      In focus in this paper is the genre of drag, and the uses to which it is put by its proponents in subverting conventional and repressive (Western) models of gender, sexuality and race. We raise the question of to what ...
    • Introduction and decolonial pedagogies, multilingualism and literacies 

      Bock, Zannie; Stroud, Christopher (University of the Western Cape, 2019)
      This Special Issue of Multilingual Margins brings together a number of creative, reflective and academic writings and artefacts that emerged from a new interinstitutional postgraduate module, Re-imagining Multilingualisms, ...
    • Linguistic citizenship as Utopia 

      Stroud, Christopher (University of the Westen Cape, 2015)
      A major challenge of our time is to build a life of equity in a fragmented world of globalized ethical, economic and ecological meltdown. In this context, language takes on singular importance as the foremost means whereby ...
    • Multilingualism as racialization 

      Richardson, Jason; Stroud, Christopher (University of Western Cape, 2021)
      South African today remains a nation torn by violence and racial inequity. One of major challenges for its people is to create new futures across historically constituted racial divides, by finding ways ...
    • Multilingualism in transformative spaces: contact and conviviality 

      Williams, Quentin; Stroud, Christopher (Springer Verlag, 2013)
      South Africa is a highly mobile country characterized by historical displacements and contemporary mobilities, both social and demographic. Getting to grips with diversity, dislocation, relocation and anomie, as well as ...
    • Multilingualism remixed: Sampling, braggadocio and the stylisation of local voice 

      Williams, Quentin; Stroud, Christopher (Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University., 2013)
      Among the many challenges posed by contexts of social transformation and extensive mobility is the question of how multilingual voice may carry across media, modalities and context. In this paper, we suggest that one ...
    • Performing rap ciphas in late-modern Cape Town: Extreme locality and multilingual citizenship 

      Williams, Quentin E.; Stroud, Christopher (Brill, 2010)
      The study of hip-hop in Cape Town, and indeed South Africa, has traditionally focused on the narratives and poetics of resistance, race and counter-hegemonic agency in the context of apartheid and the early days of ...
    • Project proposal for Mellon Supra-Institutional project on the decolonial turn (unsettling paradigms) – 2018. 

      Bock, Zannie; Stroud, Christopher (University of the Western Cape, 2019)
      This is a proposal text submitted to the Mellon Foundation entitled "Languages and Literacies in Higher Education: Reclaiming voices from the south", to secure funding for the module.
    • Shapeshifters and shamans: Topologies of multilingualism 

      Bock, Zannie; Stroud, Christopher (King's College, 2021)
      This paper is a radical break with a view of multilingualism as an arrangement or hierarchy of different languages which produces more or less visibility for these named varieties. Rather, it takes as its starting point a ...
    • Space/place matters 

      Milani, Tommaso M.; Williams, Quentin; Stroud, Christopher (CMDR 2017, 2017)
      This special issue of Multilingual Margins on the theme of “Space/ place matters” has its origin in a doctoral summer school organised in December 2016 by the Department of Linguistics and the Centre for Multilingualism ...
    • Spaces of exception: southern multilingualisms as resource and risk 

      Heugh, Kathleen; Stroud, Christopher; Scarino, Angela (Taylor & Francis, 2018)
      In this paper we draw attention to people who journey from one temporal and spatial setting towards another in the ‘South’, who aspire to a reconfigured sense of belonging, prosperity and wellbeing, and their multilinguality ...
    • Talking parts, talking back: Fleshing out linguistic citizenship 

      Stroud, Christopher; Williams, Quentin; Bontiya, Ndimphiwe (UNICAMP, 2020)
      These are the bodies of children and men and women who have inherited the brutalities of colonialism, plantation servitude and slavery and now re-live these miseries in the belly of a rampant global neoliberal and ...