LINGUIST List 31.3091
Mon Oct 12 2020
FYI: Call For Chapters: Sociolinguistics of Protesting
Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>
Date: 11-Oct-2020
From: Cristine Severo <crisgorski
gmail.com>
Subject: Call For Chapters: Sociolinguistics of Protesting
E-mail this message to a friend Sociolinguistics of Protesting
Book Project
Call for Chapters
Editors: Ashraf Abdelhay, Cristine Severo and Sinfree Makoni
If contemporary sociolinguistics theorizing is concerned with the study of social solidarity in differential contexts of power, then it has to engage with protesting discoures and practices with a focus on how they are concretely articulated from within their discursive and historical conditions. The world has recenty witnessed various forms of protesting including sustained street demonstrations and sit-ins with the task-orientation to achieve social justice, equality and freedom. The Occupy movements, the (ongoing) political actions in the Arab world, and and Black Lives Matter protests are telling cases in point. We construe protesting as any political practice motivated by a desire to rebel or revolt against any system or form of government. To engage with the discursvie politics of protesting, we operate from within a social constructionist understanding of language and the world. This book seeks to address the sociolinguistics of protesting from different geopolitical perspectives. By considering peoples’ perspectives on what constitutes a protest, we aspire to develop approaches to protests which are commensurate with the peoples’ metalinguistic categorizations of their experiences of the events they are engaged in and which affect them.
Anothor objective is to analyse how protests are socio-semioticallly organized, narrated and the nature of the semiotic resources which are used by the participants to articulate their protests. During times of protesting, groups and social individuals tend to exercise agency using socially available resources and options. The book aims to interrogate the notion of ‘agency’ in contexts of protesting with a focus on how different groups and individuals relate to each other on behalf of a common socio-political goal, creating a network structure that is not necessarily subordinated or even reducible to a single individual authority or ‘leader’. Various semiotic resources are used in the landscapping of resistance in the (gendered) bodies of protesters and street walls, in contrast to the spatialising practices which perpertuate existing patterns of social injustice. It is within these collectivley constituted projects of protesting and resitance that the relation between linguitic creativity and social justice can be understood and appreciated. This is the symbolic-ideological dimension of language which the book aims to explore in different protesting contexts. The book also addresses protests in relation to enviromental issues such as the construction of dams and displacement.
We are inviting you to contribute a chapter to this book project on the sociolinguistics of protesting. The list of issues or topics which the chapters can focus on include (but are not restricted to):
- Protesting and metalanguages (e.g., naming practices)
- Racism and protesting movements
- Protesting practices and agency
- Anti-colonial protesting discourses
- Gender and protesting movements
- Linguistic landscaping of protesting
- Protests and the body
- Translanguaging and protesting
- Protesting discourses and social justice
- Racial ideologies and protesting
- Protesting and multilingualism
- Protesting and art performance (e.g., hip hop, cartoons)
- Translation and protesting discourses
- Environmental issues (e.g., dams) and protesting
Deadlines:
- Expression of interest with a tentative title: 10 October 2020
- Abstract submission: 30 November 2020
- complete chapters submitted: 30 April 2021
- Reviewing and revisions: 30 June 2021
- Envisioned publication date: September 2021
Contact:
ashraf Abdelhay: aschraff200
gmail.com
Cristine Severo: crisgorski
gmail.com
Sinfree Makoni:sinfreemakoni
hotmail.com
Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s):
English (eng)
Language Family(ies): Indo-European
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