Gender, language, & global processes

[Barbara LeMaster]

Please be sure to share the responses with all of us.  I am working in 
this area, too, and am interested.

Barbara

On Feb 6, 2006, at 11:53 AM, Niko Besnier wrote:

> Dear all
>
> I want to initiate a new thread on the topic of gender, language, & 
> global processes.  The self-serving reason being that I am working on 
> my little contribution for the first issue of our journal, Gender & 
> Language, focusing on this topic.  If you remember, the articles in 
> the first issue focus on important and under-explored issues in 
> language & gender, so that's the background I'm working with.  Under 
> the label "global processes" I want to include transnationalism in its 
> different forms (e.g., migrations, remittances, seasonal labour, 
> multiple allegiances), as well as more canonical global processes.  I 
> also want to emphasize the local experience of global processes, e.g., 
> that of call-center workers in Bangalore who are expected to learn 
> American or British accents as a condition for employment in the 
> global service industry, even though they may never have the 
> first-hand experience of moving.
>
> As you may know, anthropologists have long been concerned with these 
> processes and experiences, but linguistic anthropologists and 
> sociolinguists have been slower at catching on to the wealth of 
> insights that one can gain about (a) gender, (b) language, and (c) 
> globality from a focus on the intersection of the three.
>
> What works have you found useful at this intersection?
>
> Looking forward to hearing about works I may not know.
>
> Niko
>
> Niko Besnier
> Professor of Cultural Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
> Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
>
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