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Transnationalism or the Sociolinguistic Life of a Con Artist</b></span></p>
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The talk can also be attended online using this link: <a href="https://ucl.zoom.us/j/2053485234" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">https://ucl.zoom.us/j/2053485234</a></p>
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In this presentation, I show how sociolinguistics can contribute productively and uniquely to the theoretical and methodological debates on transnationalism. I examine the social and language practices of WillCo, a migrant from the Democratic Republic of the
Congo (DRC) who relocated to South Africa 18 years before I met him in Cape Town. Although WillCo was sedentary, his transnationalism was produced through the intersection of material artefacts, bodies, identity formations, and performances. I interpret transnationalism
here as a body of semiotic practices of bordering and debordering that involve both anchoring in a physical location (a national-border imagination according to which practices are organized and identities assigned) and challenging the regime of mobilities
enforced and sustained by nation-states. I invoke the notion of strategic transnationalism which I define as involving the instantiation of the nation-state as a category of concurrently thinking and acting while at the same time usurping the nation-state’s
sovereign power to identify, regiment, and control bodies and their mobilities.</p>
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<span style="font-size:medium;font-family:Times;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">Cécile B. Vigouroux is currently an Associate Professor of sociolinguistics in the French department at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Her scholarship focuses on transnational
identity formation, the reshaping of linguistic ideologies, sociocultural transformations triggered by new forms of mobility, socioeconomic inequalities, the impact of informal economy on language practices, and La Francophonie. Her work bridges sociolinguistics
with other disciplines such as geography and economics. She has held fellowships from the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, in Göttingen, Germany (Spring 2012); the Mellon Foundation, through the University of Cape Town,
South Africa (Oct. 2012); and the Collegium de Lyon, France (2013-14).</span></div>
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