Embodied Histories, Imagined Worlds, Emplaced Resistance
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Ashraf Abdelhay
About this book
Contemporary sociolinguistic theorizing is concerned with the study of social solidarity in differential contexts of power, so it must engage with protesting discourses and practices. In two volumes, Sociolinguistics of Protesting addresses the socio-discursivity of protesting from different geopolitical perspectives and illustrates how protests are socio-semiotically organized and narrated.
Volume 1 (the current volume) critically rethinks protest as a central sociolinguistic practice rather than an exception to an imagined social order. Drawing on transdisciplinary and various case studies – from the Arab revolutions to Hong Kong’s Lennon Walls and South Africa’s student uprisings – this volume explores how language, embodiment, and space intersect in acts of resistance. It is the first of a two-volume set that reshapes the field’s understanding of language in times of crisis and uprising.
In Volume 2, scholars explore the complex intersections between protest, language, and decolonial thought. It challenges dominant linguistic ideologies by uncovering how language is wielded, contested, and reimagined in protests against racial, gendered, and colonial violence. From Black feminist activism in the U.S. to anti-mining movements in South Africa and pandemic protests in Chile, the chapters examine how diverse (embodied) linguistic practices resist dominant power structures and give voice to marginalized communities.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments
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Foreword
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Contents
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1 Protesting and de-utopianizing sociolinguistics
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2 Landscapes of protest movements: Spaces and discourses that prefigure, and perform other possible worlds
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3 “Qui no té passat, no té identitat” [One who has no past has no identity]: Voices from history in activist Spain
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4 Protest demonstrations in Kosovo: Histories of spatialized embodiment and its discursive (re)mediatization
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5 #idlenomore: The discourse of Indigenous resistance in Canada
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6 Fleeting notes or writing on the wall?
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7 Social media, affective publics and protest assemblages during the Covid-19 pandemic
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8 Insights on Political Graffiti in Kenya: Activism or Vandalism?
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9 Means of protest actions: Traces on the landscape
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10 Cartoons as a channel to protest against power: Abuse in the workplace
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11 The Egyptian revolution from hope to despair: Recollections of the protests
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12 Randuk as a tool of protesting: The case of the December 2018 Revolution in Sudan
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Contributors
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Index
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