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Spaces of exception: southern multilingualisms as resource and risk
(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 ...
Diversities, affinities and diasporas: a southern lens and methodology for understanding multilingualisms
(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, ...
Multilingualism in transformative spaces: contact and conviviality
(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 ...
Talking parts, talking back: Fleshing out linguistic citizenship
(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 ...
Shades,voice and mobility: Afar pastoralist and Rift Valley com- munities (re)interpreting literacy and linguistic practices
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
In this paper, narrative data from remote communities in Ethiopia reveal in intimateways how ‘linguistic citizenship’ (Stroud 2001) is claimed and exercised to resisteducational decisions which are insensitive to the rhythms ...
dalawhatyoumust: Kaaps, translingualism and linguistic citizenship in Cape Town, South Africa
(Discourse, Context & Media, 2023)
In 2016 Wayde Van Niekerk, a South African athlete of mixed-race heritage won an Olympic gold medal. In South Africa, his win caused hashtags such as #proudlysouthafrican, #blackexcellence and #colouredexcellence to trend ...