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dc.contributor.authorRichardson, Jason
dc.contributor.authorStroud, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-14T07:54:38Z
dc.date.available2022-02-14T07:54:38Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationRichardson, J., & Stroud, C. (2021). Multilingualism as racialization. Multilingual Margins , 8(1), 2-11.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2663-4848
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.multimargins.ac.za/index.php/mm/article/view/232
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/7235
dc.description.abstractSouth 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 to engage with each other across difference. In this regard, multilingualism holds out the promise of offering a way of bridging difference and opening spaces for engagement and empathy with Others. Today contemporary constructs of multilingualism, both in policy and everyday practice, continue to reinforce racialized divisions inherited from historical uses of language as a tool of colonialism, and a mechanism of governmentality in apartheid, the system of exploitation and state sanctioned institutional racism. In this paper we seek to demonstrate how multilingualism has always been, and remains today, an ‘epistemic’ site for managing constructed racialized diversity. In order to do so we trace periods of South Africa’s history. By way of conclusion, we suggest that alternative linguistic orders require a decolonial rethinking of the role of language(s) in epistemic, social and political life.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectMultilingualismen_US
dc.subjectRacializationen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectViolenceen_US
dc.subjectApartheiden_US
dc.titleMultilingualism as racializationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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