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Volume 1 Embodied Histories, Imagined Worlds, Emplaced Resistance

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Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]
Sociolinguistics of Protesting
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Published/Copyright: 2026
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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. With a foreword by Mariem Guellouz.

 

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. With a foreword by Nick Faraclas.

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Ashraf Abdelhay, Doha Inst. for Grad. Studies; Sinfree Makoni, Penn. State University; Cristine Severo, Univ. of Santa Catarina, Brazil.

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    Foreword

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    1 Protesting and de-utopianizing sociolinguistics

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    Ashraf Abdelhay, Cristine Severo and Sinfree Makoni
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    2 Landscapes of protest movements: Spaces and discourses that prefigure, and perform other possible worlds

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    Luisa Martín Rojo
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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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    Grace Reynolds
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    4 Protest demonstrations in Kosovo: Histories of spatialized embodiment and its discursive (re)mediatization

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    Uranela Demaj, Stef Slembrouck and Mieke Vandenbroucke
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    5 #idlenomore: The discourse of Indigenous resistance in Canada

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    Anna Mongibello
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    6 Fleeting notes or writing on the wall?

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    Kate Mei Lam Lai, Selim Ben-Said and Teresa Wai See Ong
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    7 Social media, affective publics and protest assemblages during the Covid-19 pandemic

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    Bal Krishna Sharma and Prem Phyak
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    8 Insights on Political Graffiti in Kenya: Activism or Vandalism?

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    Irene Kimani
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    9 Means of protest actions: Traces on the landscape

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    Arlene Archer and Anders Björkvall
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    10 Cartoons as a channel to protest against power: Abuse in the workplace

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    Lamya Alkooheji and Khalil E. Mohamed
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    11 The Egyptian revolution from hope to despair: Recollections of the protests

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    Menna Elbashar
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    12 Randuk as a tool of protesting: The case of the December 2018 Revolution in Sudan

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    Abdelrahim Hamid Mugaddam, Mohammad Alkhair and Nada Eljack
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    Contributors

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eBook published on:
February 2, 2026
eBook ISBN:
9783110770537
Hardcover published on:
February 2, 2026
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110770414
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Front matter:
22
Main content:
264
Illustrations:
69
Coloured Illustrations:
47
Tables:
17
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110770537
eBook ISBN: 9783110770537
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110770414
Keywords for this book
Sociolinguistics of Protesting; Colonial Linguistics; Protesting Narratives; Protesting Voice
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Researchers in Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Political Science, History, Area Studies, Cultural Studies
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