31.3263, FYI: Call for Chapters - Sociolinguistics of Protesting

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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 21:57:55
From: Cristine Severo [crisgorski at gmail.com]
Subject: Call for Chapters - Sociolinguistics of Protesting

 
Sociolinguistics of Protesting
Book Project
Call for Chapters
Editors: Ashraf Abdelhay, Cristine Severo and Sinfree Makoni

If contemporary sociolinguistics theorizing is concerned with the study of
social solidarity in differential contexts of power, then it has to engage
with protesting discoures and practices with a focus on how they are
concretely articulated from within their discursive and historical conditions.
The world has recenty witnessed various forms of protesting including
sustained street demonstrations and sit-ins with the task-orientation to
achieve social justice, equality and freedom. The Occupy movements, the
(ongoing) political actions in the Arab world, and and Black Lives Matter
protests are telling cases in point. We construe protesting as any political
practice motivated by a desire to rebel or revolt against any system or form
of government. To engage with the discursvie politics of protesting, we
operate from within a social constructionist understanding of language and the
world. This book seeks to address the sociolinguistics of protesting from
different geopolitical perspectives. By considering peoples’ perspectives on
what constitutes a protest, we aspire to develop approaches to protests which
are commensurate with the peoples’ metalinguistic categorizations of their
experiences of the events they are engaged in and which affect them. 

Anothor objective is to analyse how protests are socio-semioticallly
organized, narrated and the  nature of the semiotic resources which are used
by the participants to articulate their protests. During times of protesting,
groups and social individuals tend to exercise agency using socially available
resources and options. The book aims to interrogate the notion of ‘agency’ in
contexts of protesting with a focus on how different groups and individuals
relate to each other on behalf of a common socio-political goal, creating a
network structure that is not necessarily subordinated or even reducible to a
single individual authority or ‘leader’. Various semiotic resources are used
in the landscapping of resistance in the (gendered) bodies of protesters and
street walls, in contrast to the spatialising practices which perpertuate
existing patterns of social injustice. It is within these collectivley
constituted projects of protesting and resitance that the relation between
linguitic creativity and social justice can be understood and appreciated.
This is the symbolic-ideological dimension of language which the book aims to
explore in different protesting contexts. 
The book also addresses protests in relation to enviromental issues such as
the construction of dams and displacement.

We are inviting you to contribute a chapter to this book project on the
sociolinguistics of protesting. The list of issues or topics which the
chapters can focus on include (but are not restricted to):

- Protesting and metalanguages (e.g., naming practices)
- Racism and protesting movements
- Protesting practices and agency
- Anti-colonial protesting discourses
- Gender and protesting movements
- Linguistic landscaping of protesting
- Protests and the body
- Translanguaging and protesting
- Protesting discourses and social justice
- Racial ideologies and protesting
- Protesting and multilingualism
- Protesting and art performance (e.g., hip hop, cartoons)
- Translation and protesting discourses
- Environmental issues (e.g., dams) and protesting

Deadlines:

- Expression of interest with Abstract submission: 30 November 2020
- complete chapters submitted: 30 April 2021
- Reviewing and revisions: 30 June 2021
- Envisioned publication date: September 2021

For any questions or queries please contact:

Ashraf Abdelhay: aschraff200 at gmail.com
Cristine Severo: crisgorski at gmail.com
Sinfree Makoni: sinfreemakoni at hotmail.com
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): Indo-European





 



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