Language, whether spoken, written, or signed, is a powerful resource that is used to facilitate social justice or undermine it. The first reference resource to use an explicitly global lens to explore the interface between language and social justice, this volume expands our understanding of how language symbolizes, frames, and expresses political, economic, and psychic problems in society, thus contributing to visions for social justice.
Investigating specific case studies in which language is used to instantiate and/or challenge social injustices, each chapter provides a unique perspective on how language carries value and enacts power by presenting the historical contexts and ethnographic background for understanding how language engenders and/or negotiates specific social justice issues. Case studies are drawn from Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America and the Pacific Islands, with leading experts tackling a broad range of themes, such as equality, sovereignty, communal well-being, and the recognition of complex intersectional identities and relationships within and beyond the human world.
Putting issues of language and social justice on a global stage and casting light on these processes in communities increasingly impacted by ongoing colonial, neoliberal, and neofascist forms of globalization, Language and Social Justice is an essential resource for anyone interested in this area of research.
Explores how language both facilitates and undermines social justice in complex ways around the globe, through a broad range of international case studies.
Recenzijos
In this climate of injustice, the publication of Language and Social Justice is timely and welcome. It makes an important contribution to a growing effort to explore the intersections of language and social justice. * Language in Society * A landmark in the emerging field of language and social justice studies. Long understood as merely something we think with, language is here recognized as the sociopolitical accomplishment that it truly is. The authors show us that from this key understanding, we can advance social justice reforms. -- Paul V. Kroskrity, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA An important and timely book which offers new and thought-provoking insights into a range of topical language and social justice issues around the world. -- Professor Helen Sauntson, York St John University, UK
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Explores how language both facilitates and undermines social justice in complex ways around the globe, through a broad range of international case studies.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Global Entanglements of Language and Social Justice, Inmaculada
M. Garcķa-Sįnchez (University of California, USA), Kathleen C. Riley (Rutgers
University, USA) and Bernard C. Perley (University of British Columbia,
Canada)
Part I: Challenging Linguistic Ideologies and Exclusions
1. A Language Socialization Approach to Humanizing Ethnographic Methods
in Latinx Families Homes, Ariana Mangual Figueroa (City University of New
York, USA) and Sera Hernįndez (San Diego State University, USA)
2. Language Access and Deaf Activism in Mexico and Nepal,Erika
Hoffmann-Dilloway (Oberlin College, USA) and Anne E. Pfister (University of
North Florida, USA)
3. Multilingual Activism as Acts of Linguistic Citizenship in South
Africa, Quentin Williams (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
4. Colonialism and Language Politics in Puerto Rico, Sherina
Feliciano-Santos (University of Michigan, USA)
5. Labels, Codes, and Language Sovereignty in the Pacific, Kathleen C.
Riley (Rutgers University, USA) and Christine Jourdan (Concordia University,
Canada)
Commentary, Patricia Baquedano-López (University of California, USA)
Part II: Confronting Hate and Violence
6. The Humpty Dumpty Mistranslation and Misrepresentation Deployed in the
British Colonization of Aotearoa/New Zealand, Margaret Mutu (University of
Auckland, New Zealand)
7. The Linguistic Defense of White Comfort in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
Jennifer Roth-Gordon (University of Arizona, USA)
8. (Con)sensual Sexual and Reproductive Justice for Indigenous Women and
Girls through Beadwork and Burlesque, Brittany Johnson (MacEwan University,
Canada)
9. Telling Truths, Keeping Silence in the Aftermath of War in Sarajevo,
Keziah Conrad
10. Arabic and the Discursive Contours of Islamo-Linguistic-Phobia in Spain
and France, Inmaculada M. Garcķa-Sįnchez (University of California, USA) and
Chantal Tetreault (Michigan State University, USA)
Commentary, Luisa Martķn-Rojo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
Part III: Decoding Globalized Interactions
11. Seafarers' Talk about (In)Justice on the Good Ship, Johanna Markkula
(Central European University) and Sonia Das (New York University, USA)
12. Barcelona Street Vendors Voice and the Crossing of Narrative (B)Orders,
Laura Menna (Independent Researcher) and Eva Codó (Universitat Autņnoma de
Barcelona, Spain)
13. Interdiscursive Dimensions of Mobility and Precarity for Guatemalan
Indigenous Youth, Jennifer F. Reynolds (University of South Carolina, USA)
14. Regimes of Organization in Danish Legal Interpreting, Martha Karrebęk
(University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and Marta Kirilova (University of
Copenhagen, Denmark)
15. Keywords Decolonized? The Social Lives of Wenhua/Culture and the Spectre
of Symbolic Violence in Chinese-English Dialogues, Louisa Schein (Rutgers
University, USA)and Fan Yang (University of Maryland, USA)
Commentary, Miyako Inoue (Stanford University, USA)
Part IV: Negotiating Resources in the Anthropocene
16. Global Languages and Communicative Inequality in the Last Place on
Earth, James Slotta (University of Texas, USA) and Courtney Handman
(University of Texas, USA)
17. Pursuit of Health/Communicative Justice through an Intercultural Health
Model in Gulumapu (Chile), Jennifer Guzmįn (SUNY Geneseo, USA)
18. Inscribing Social Justice through Indigenous Place Names, Bernard C.
Perley (University of British Columbia, Canada)
19. Discursive Resistance, Communicative Refusal, and Food Provisioning in
Santiago de Cuba, Hannah Garth (Princeton University, USA)
20. Discursive Constructions of Non-Human Beings and the Contingency of
Moral Consideration for Local Wildlife, Paul B. Garrett (Temple University,
USA) and Rebecca Michelin (Independent Researcher)
Commentary, Barbra Meek (University of Michigan, USA)
Index
Kathleen C. Riley is Assistant Teaching Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at Rutgers University, USA.
Bernard C. Perley is Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Inmaculada M. Garcķa-Sįnchez isProfessor of Social Research Methodology and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of International Migration at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
