30.3563, Confs: Discipline of Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Hong Kong

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Subject: 30.3563, Confs: Discipline of Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Hong Kong

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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:29:23
From: Jaspal Singh [singhjn at hku.hk]
Subject: Decolonising, Unsettling and Rebuilding Sociolinguistics

 
Decolonising, Unsettling and Rebuilding Sociolinguistics 

Date: 16-Jun-2020 - 19-Jun-2020 
Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong 
Contact: Jaspal Singh 
Contact Email: singhjn at hku.hk 

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

There has been some discussion in our field in recent years about the
possibilities of decolonising the teaching of sociolinguistics. Lecturers
around the world are now changing their curricula to incorporate more examples
and scholars from previously colonised places, rather than always only
regurgitating ‘canonical’ studies, conducted in North America and Western
Europe or by scholars from the global north. Reading lists for seminars, for
example, are now expected to incorporate a substantial amount of Black female
scholars to be taken seriously by multicultural students. While these
interventions are necessary and still have a long way to go, this panel seeks
to plot the next steps in the decolonisation of sociolinguistics. Which
southern theories can be used to explain contemporary sociolinguistic
processes? How do the racial identities of researchers both constrain and open
up ethical, methodological and theoretical possibilities? What must be
considered when scholars from northern and western countries cross national
and cultural borders to study disenfranchised and previously colonised people?
Has the time come for, say, African and Asian researchers to come to Europe or
North America and conduct ethnographic research among local European natives,
using African and Asian theories? What else can be done to further politicise
the academy and unsettle the unequal access to knowledge that has been
established during 500 years of colonialism and imperialism and that continues
on and finds emphatic resurgence in the current neoliberal moment of
globalisation?

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The panel seeks to create a safe – yet not incontestable – space for collegial
exchange. It is hoped that panellists will take stock of current best
practices and unsettling possibilities of the political project of
decolonising sociolinguistics and plot collaborative plans for future steps to
rebuild sociolinguistics in more inclusive and realistic ways.

 
Keywords:  Sociolinguistics, Decolonisation, Southern Theory, Academic
discourse, Subversion  

If you would like to contribute to this panel, please contact the panel
convenor before 14 October 2019:

Dr Jaspal Naveel Singh
Assistant Professor of Sociolinguistics
School of English
The University of Hong Kong
Email: singhjn at hku.hk
Tel.: (+852) 3917 7281

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